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Meaning:

Adjective:

  • Causing alteration. Specifically: Gradually changing, or tending to change, a morbid state of the functions into one of health. --Burton.

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Noun:

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

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