antidote vs corrigent

antidote

noun
  • A remedy to counteract the effects of poison. 

  • Something that counteracts or prevents something harmful. 

verb
  • To counteract as an antidote. 

corrigent

noun
  • Any substance added to a medicine to make it more palatable 

adj
  • corrective 

How often have the words antidote and corrigent occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )