Citations:surfeit water

English citations of surfeit water

• a. 1673, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, A Ramble in St. James's Park:

  My dram of sperm was supped up after
  For the digestive surfeit water.

• 1757, Ambrose Cooper, The Complete Distiller, page 173:

  There are two Kinds of Surfeit-water, one made by Distillation, and the other by Infusion, the former is generally called white Surfeit Water, and latter red Surfeit Water.

• 1864, Pye Henry Chavasse, Advice to mothers, 7th edition, page 196:

  An acquaintance or a neighbour sees the child, and tells the mother, that the principal thing to be attended to, is, to throw the measles out; and for that purpose, she recomends her to give him “surfeit-water” and “tent-wine.”