"Chocolate overloads the stomach, and renders the juices too slow in their circulation." Smith on the Nerves.
[ 2 ] Floyer, Malpighus, Epew, Harvey, Willis, Lower, Needham, Glisson, &c.
[ 3 ] Waters drank at their source are efficacious in many complaints that are not accompanied with inflammatory symptoms; but if they are drank after a long or short conveyance, their effects must be proportionably injurious instead of beneficial.