Chocolate as medicine : a quest over the centuries / Philip K. Wilson, W. Jeffrey Hurst.

Cambridge : RSC Pub., [2012], ©2012.

xx, 213 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

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.