ALTERATIVE

a. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Causing ateration. Specifically:

2.
a.

Gradually changing, or tending to change, a morbid state of the functions into one of health. Burton.

3.
n.

A medicine or treatment which gradually induces a change, and restores healthy functions without sensible evacuations.


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