Feeling a bit under the atmospheric condition ? Have some deep brown : the best aesculapian intellect of the seventeenth century claim that it ’ll bring around just about anything . gravely .
According to public - domain document from the 1600s , tea , coffee , chocolate and other red-hot drink were once dictate by Doctor and pharmacists as strong ( and potentially dangerous ) drugs . When explorers first brought the cocoa bean back to Europe , it was regard a dangerous , unpredictable and potentially deadly remedy . In reality , that was just delicious snake - petroleum .
So , how did this tasty misclassification go on ? Blame Humorism — an ancient aesculapian theory that take the body was made up of four hot , wry , wet , and cold “ humors . ” If any one of them was out of Libra the Balance , the body contracted a disease . Bloodletting , herbaceous plant or chocolate could be used to put thing back in gild . Chocolate ’s curative properties rise in opprobrium for years , eventually being sold to the public as a cure for acerbity , assorted lung diseases , pest , urinary infections and even poison ! One sales pitch to British consumer even promises that chocolate can make clean your teeth and “ sweetneth the breath . ” That last one might even be honest .
Ask a modern doctor what they recall of chocolate and they might say you that its instinctive cocoa flavanols are a in effect antioxidant — but they ’ll probably just warn you not to rust too much . [ Public Domain Review ]
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