Marcos Patchett is a medical herbalist. He graduated from Middlesex University's Herbal Medicine BSc course with a first class degree honours and the Elsevier science prize for plant pharmacology in 2005. He worked as a medical herbalist in King's Cross for several years, specialising in complementary care for people living with HIV, and practiced from Neal's Yard remedies' Therapy Rooms in Covent Garden and Notting Hill. He worked as a dispenser in Middlesex University's Archway training clinic, and later went on to become the clinical supervisor for Western Herbal medicine BSc and MSc courses at Middlesex's Integrative Medicine training clinic in Hendon. Marcos is also an enthusiastic student of Renaissance and Medieval astrology. He is frequently invited to give talks on contemporary herbal medicine and traditional medical astrology internationally. Marcos currently lives and works in London.
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A WORD ON ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS
INTRODUCTION
PART I: CHOCOLATE ROOTS
CHAPTER ONE - A potted history of chocolate
CHAPTER TWO - Bodies of chocolate
PART II: MEDICINAL CHOCOLATE
CHAPTER THREE - The chocolate apothecary
CHAPTER FOUR - Pharmaceutical chocolate
CHAPTER FIVE - Chocolate, love, and bondage (Part I)
CHAPTER SIX - Associates and accomplices
CHAPTER SEVEN - Chocolate, love, and bondage (Part II)
CHAPTER EIGHT - Chocolate formulary
PART III: METAPHYSICAL CHOCOLATE
CHAPTER NINE - Death by chocolate
CHAPTER TEN - The dark side of Venus
CONCLUSION
ENDNOTES
APPENDICES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INDEX
