Chocolate: or, An Indian Drinke / By the wise and Moderate use whereof, Health is preserved, Sicknesse Diverted, and Cured, especially the Plague of the Guts; vulgarly called The New Disease

by Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma

Transcriber’s Note:

In general, spelling and punctuation are as found. Changes have been made as follows:

• Title Page:
  • The date [1652] is from the catalogue entry. The last digit is obscured (165?) in the original.
  • Colminero changed to [Colmenero] (matches other occurrences in the text).
• Poem:
  • Chonolate changed to [Chocolate]
• First Point:
  • re-received changed to [received]
  • an-answered changed to [answered]
  • primaq; expanded to [primaque]
  • Removed duplicated word “it” in “though [it] excuse not”
  • Sidenote [Ta-asco.] is unclear in the scan and was left as found.
  • cumq; expanded to [cumque]
  • dulcisq; expanded to [dulcisque]
  • commõ expanded to [common]
• Second Point:
  • Cocao changed to [Cacao]
  • Duplicated signature mark B4 changed to [C4]