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a cold in the head, and disorders in the lungs." The practice of Madame de Se- vigne prevailed, and her mode of making   cafe au lait was substituted instead of the  origional mode. The use of coffee was  introduced into London rather sooner than  into Paris; the first coffee house having  been opened in 1652, in George yard Lom-  bard street, by a Greek servant of Mr  Edwards, a Turkey merchant. The Dutch  first brought the coffee plant into Europe  from their settlement in Batavia, whither  they had introduced it from Mocha in  1690. In 1714, the Burgemaster of  Amsterdam sent two plants to Louis XIV.;  this monarch committed them to the care  of Desdieux, who was going out as governor  to Martinique. On his voyage, water having  become extremely scarce, he deprived  himself daily of a part of his short allow-  ance, in order to keep the coffee plants  alive: they arrived in good condition, and  are said to have been the parents of all the coffee plants since cultivated in the Indian Islands. Humbolt computes that the quantity of coffee annually consumed in Europe amounts to 115,971,000 pounds avoirdupois; and that the consumption of France is 230,000 quintals.