Do"ver's Pow"der (?). [From Dr. Dover, an English
physician.] (Med.) 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.