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What does the word agent mean?

• Anything which produces an effect upon the organism; especially a remedy of any sort, whether medicinal or not.

• A substance or compound that changes existing conditions.

• Any power which produces, or tends to produce, an effect on the human body. Morbific agents, ( F.) Agens morbifiques, are the causes of disease ;-therapeutical agents, ( F.) Agens therapeutiques, the means of treating it.

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