Definitions for dover's powder
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Dover's powdernoun

   a medicinal powder made essentially of ipecac and opium; formerly used to relieve pain and induce perspiration

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1. dover's powder

   Dover's Powder is a type of medication which is a combination of ipecacuanha and opium. It was commonly used in the 18th and 19th centuries as a treatment for pain, fever, and as a sudorific (substance to induce sweating). Named after its inventor Dr. Thomas Dover, it was also known as "Ipecacuanha powder" or simply "powdered ipecac". Despite its previous popularity, Dover's Powder is no longer commonly used due to its opium content and the associated health risks.

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1. Dover's Powder

   a powder of ipecac and opium, compounded, in the United States, with sugar of milk, but in England (as formerly in the United States) with sulphate of potash, and in France (as in Dr. Dover's original prescription) with nitrate and sulphate of potash and licorice. It is an anodyne diaphoretic

2. Etymology: [From Dr. Dover, an English physician.]

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1. Dover's powder

   Dover's powder was a traditional medicine against cold and fever developed by Thomas Dover. It is no longer in use in modern medicine, but may have been in use at least through the 1960s. A 1958 source describes Dover's Powder as follows: "Powder of Ipecacuanha and Opium. Pulv. Ipecac. et Opii; Ipecac and Opium Powder; Dover's Powder; Compound Ipecacuanha Powder. Prepared ipecacuanha, 10 g., powdered opium 10 g., lactose 80 g. It contains 1% of anhydrous morphine. Dose: 320 to 640 mg.. Many foreign pharmacies include a similar powder, sometimes with potassium sulphate or with equal parts of potassium nitrate and potassium sulphate in place of lactose; max. single dose 1 to 1.5 g. and max. in 24 hours 4 to 6 g." Named from Doctor Thomas Dover, an English physician of the eighteenth century who first prepared it, the powder was an old preparation of powder of ipecacuanha, opium in powder, and potassium sulfate. The powder was largely used in domestic practice to induce sweating, to defeat the advance of a "cold" and at the beginning of any attack of fever. It was also known by the name pulvis ipecacuanhae et opii.

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1. Dover's powder

   dō′verz pow′der, n. a valuable sudorific medicine, compounded of ipecacuanha root, powdered opium, and sulphate of potash. [From Dr Thomas Dover, 1660-1742.]

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   The numerical value of dover's powder in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

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   The numerical value of dover's powder in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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4. ^ Wikidata
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5. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
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