\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.