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noun
  1. A medicine or treatment which gradually induces a change, and restores healthy functions without sensible evacuations.
adjective
  1. Causing alteration. Specifically: Gradually changing, or tending to change, a morbid state of the functions into one of health. --Burton.
Etymology: Latin alterativus: compare with French altératif.

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