Chocolate as medicine : a quest over the centuries /
Philip K. Wilson, W. Jeffrey Hurst.
- Cambridge, UK : RSC Pub., c2012.
- xx, 213 p. : ill. (some col.) ;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-206) and index.
Chocolate as medicine : an introduction -- Chocolate as medicine : seeking evidence throughout history -- Chocolate and healing in pre-Columbian Mesoamerican culture -- Cacao transported to Europe as medicine -- Expanding chocolate's use as medicine -- Chocolate and nutritional health : industrial era through WWII -- Modern chocolate science and human heath -- Epilogue: prognosticating chocolate's future as medicine -- Appendixes.