Compound Lime-Water.
Take shavings of guaiacum wood, half a pound; liquorice root, one ounce; sassafras bark, half an ounce; coriander seeds, three drachms; simple lime-water, six pints.
Infuse without heat for two days, and then strain off the liquor.
In the same manner may lime-water be impregnated with the virtues of other vegetable substances. Such impregnation not only renders the water more agreeable to the palate, but also a more efficacious medicine, especially in cutaneous disorders, and foulness of the blood and juices.
It may be taken in the same quantity as the simple water.
William Buchan
Domestic Medicine 2nd edition 1785