Excerpt from Coffee, Tea and Chocolate: Their Influence Upon the Health, the Intellect, and the Moral Nature of Man Lastly, Marradon'x' informs us that in the be ginning Of the seventeenth century every kind of intercourse was prohibited between the In dian women and the ladies of New Spain. The latter were accused of learning sorcery from the former, who, being taught by the devil, committed an infinite number Of crimes under the influence Of chocolate, of which they were great mistressesii' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.