Complex sentence: Angostura bitters was first compounded in Venezuela in 1824 by German physician Dr. Johann Gottlieb Benjamin Siegert; it was compounded as a cure for sea sickness and stomach maladies, though other medicinal uses had been discovered long before this.
Split into simpler sentences: Angostura bitters was first compounded in Venezuela in 1824 by German physician Dr. Johann Gottlieb Benjamin Siegert. Originally, bitte was compounded as a cure for sea sickness and stomach maladies, though other medicinal uses had been discovered long before this.