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- noun Plural form of
alterant .
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That they were used both as mordants and alterants is evident from several references.
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_ -- Bleeding is not to be used, because it would only still further weaken an already enfeebled animal; antimony or the alterants would increase the depression of a too-depraved constitution.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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