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12:0582057True Vic. I have a search setup on eBay for old Dover Bottles and 'Dover Powder' often comes up on the results.
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28 November 2010
12:0782059And what does it do Vic-cause sickness or deal with the hangover?
Watty
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28 November 2010
12:0782060And what does it do Vic-cause sickness or deal with the hangover?
Watty
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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12:0782062Thank you Ken, but what
was it used for please, I have a Dr in the family but will not see him till Xmas
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12:0882064From Wiki
Dover's powder was a traditional medicine against cold and fever. 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 (B.P., Egyp. P., Ind. P.). Pulv. Ipecac. et Opii; Ipecac and Opium Powder (U.S.N.F.); Dover's Powder; Compound Ipecacuanha Powder. Prepared ipecacuanha, 10 g., powdered opium 10 g., lactose 80 g. It contains 1% of anhydrous morphine. Dose: 300 to 600 mg. (5 to 10 grains). 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."[1]
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 (which is currently used to produce syrup of ipecac), 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.
To obtain the greatest benefits from its use as a sudorific, it was recommended that copious drafts of some warm and harmless drink be ingested after the use of the powder.
The following excerpt from a report penned by a doctor, Doctor Sharp, employed in the British naval service in the West Indies, in this case, in Trinidad, in 1818, illustrates its use. He writes :
At this period, thirty cases of acute dysentery also occurred amongst them and although nineteen of the number were men who arrived in the island from Europe on the 1st and 12th of June, yet, the symptoms even in them were equally as mild as in the assimilated soldier, and the disease yielded to the common remedies - viz - bleeding when the state of the vascular system appeared to indicate the use of it, but in general, saline purgatives in small and repeated quantities were only necessary with small doses at bed time, of calomel and opium, infusion of ipecacuanha or Dover's powder, and this with tonics, moderate use of port wine and a light farinaceous diet generally and speedily accomplished a perfect case
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12:2782067Well done Mr Baker,a very good post
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12:3282068IPECAC has been widely used - my grandma used to say 'have some' (for coughs especially):
IPECACUAN a flowering plant of the Brazil forests, contains alkaloids, one causes vomiting and other is commonly used in cough mixtures like Benelyn, as an expectorant.
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12:4282073It gets better and better lets have even more feed backs please.
28 November 2010
13:0882081lactose,Is A Bowl loosener May be why so much Bull S**t coming from DDC
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13:1782082Powdered opium and morphine followed by copious drinks - reminds of a local hostelry!
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17:5182133Some of the old remedies take a lot of beating !!
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This is true.
