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This temperament indicates [pg 163]a necessity for the employment of stimulating, alterative, and antiseptic medicines.

, the elimination of corrupting matter, and the system requires alteratives to produce these salutary changes.

Alteratives are a class of medicines which in some inexplicabadd1le manner, gradually change certain morbid actions of the system, and establish a healthy condition instead.

Alteratives may possess tonic, laxative, stimulant, or diuretic properties all combined in one agent.

Or we may combine several alteratives, each having only one of these properties in one remedy.

We propose to enumerate only a few alteratives, and give the doses which are usually prescribed, the list which we employ in our practice is very extensive, but it cannot be made available for domestic use.

[pg 304]Mandrake (Podophyllum Peltatum), also called May-apple, is a most valuable alterative.

Poke (Phytolacca Decandra), also called Skoke, Garget, or Pigeon-berry, is a valuable alterative.

Black Cohosh is an alterative stimulant, nervine, diaphoretic, tonic, and a cerebro-spinal stimulant.

In minute doses Blood-root is a valuable alterative, acting upon the biliary secretion and improving the circulation and digestion.

Burdock is a valuable alterative in diseases of the blood.

Sweet Elder-flowers are a valuable alterative, diuretic, mucous and glandular stimulant, excellent in eruptive, cutaneous, and scrofulous diseases of children.

The various preparations of mercury have a profound, alterative effect upon the system.



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