alterative vs rehabilitative

alterative

adj
  • Gradually changing, or tending to change, a morbid state into a healthy one. 

  • Causing alteration. 

noun
  • A medicine or treatment which works by changing processes within the body, rather than by evacuating something etc. 

rehabilitative

adj
  • Tending to rehabilitate. 

  • For the purpose of rehabilitation. 

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