Dover's Powder, developed and described by the British physician Thomas Dover in 1732, was one of the more popular and enduring of the opium-based medications that were widely used in the United States and Europe prior to the twentieth century....

1660-1742 English physician who is best known for introducing a popular remedy known as Dover's Powder. This potent medicine contained ipecac, opium, and potassium sulfate. It was prescribed as an analgesic, a sedative, and a sudorific or...

Dover's powder was a traditional medicine against cold and fever. It is no longer in use in modern medicine. Named from Doctor Thomas Dover, an English physician of the eighteenth century who first prepared it, the powder was an old preparation of...