Dover’s powder

Some street names for morphine are cube juice, hard stuff, hocus, M, Miss Emma, monkey, and white stuff. Names for opium includes big O, black stuff, Chinese tobacco, Dover s powder, joy plant, and zero. Street names for heroin include dope, H, horse, junk, skag, and smack. The mixture of heroin and cocaine is termed a speedball. Names for codeine include Captain Cody, Cody, and schoolboy, and it is found in combination with glutethimide. 

Although morphine produces some degree of sweating, it is a very poor diaphoretic when compared with pilocarpine or methacholine. The sweating caused by Dover s powder is mainly due to the ipecac content. The use of this powder as a diaphoretic for aborting the onset of colds due to exposure may conceivably be based on the same rationale as suggested with alcohol. 

OFFICIAL NAMES Opium, laudanum, paregoric, Dover s powder... 

Hospitals, such as the one at Fort Sumner, Maryland, utilized a wider array of substances, but familiar items appear with predictable regularity. Mercurials, opium, ipecac, quinine sulfate, morphine, and Dover s powder predominate. Less frequent, but by no means rare, were syrup of squills, zingiber (ginger), buchu, iron, Seidlitz powder, cinchona, castor oil, and copaiba. 

The 152nd Ohio Volunteers had their share of illness. On August 1, Williamson and Jobes stmggled with a particularly obstinate wave of typhoid and intermittent fevers accompanied by diarrhea. 4 Some were sent to general hospital, while others were treated with opium and antiperiodics. D. Ault, a private in Company B, for example, was treated for diarrhea and fever with cinchona and Dover s powder. Throughout the prescription book, in fact, a lot of typhoid and intermittent fevers appear in the entries most of the afQicted were sent to their quarters rather than to the hospital. 

When not contraindicated, it is the best anodyne and soporific with which we are acquainted. A state of high fever or inflammation forbids its use, as its primary operation is that of a stimulant. It is seldom given when there is a parched tongue and dry skin. In most cases of great pain or irritation, in moderate fever with a moist skin and no cerebral disorder, in delirium tremens, in cancer, in bronchitis (combined with camphor or ipecacuanha, as in Paregoric and Dover s powder), opium may be prescribed. It is... 

Dover s powders introduced by the English physician Thomas Dover as Pulvis Diaphoreticus in the early Eighteenthcentury (and until recently in some Pharmacopoeias)... 

Dover s Tincture. Pulverized ipecacuanha and opium, of each 8 grains dilated alcohol, 1 fluid ounce. Macerate for 14 days and filter or macerate 6 hours and displace 1 fluid ounce with dilated alcohol, 1 fluid drachm equivalent to 10 grains Dover s powder. Used in combination with spirit of Mindererns effervescing draught, and other anti-febiile remedies in liquid form. 

Dover s Powder, Ipecacuanha, in powder, I drachm powdered opium, 1 drachm powdered saltpetre, 1 ounce. All well mixed. Dose, from 8 to 20 grains. 

Camphorated Dover s Powder. Pulverize 5 drachms camphor with ether, add 5 drachms prepared chalk, 5 drachms pulverized Itquonce, and 17 grains sulphate of morphine. Dose, from 1 to 10 grains, used in oU kinds of fevers, and as an anodyne. 

Dover s Powder. Camphorated 5423 Dover s Rheumatic Powder. . .5531... 

Where it is advifable to procure copious fweats, the emetics, as ipecacuanha, joined with opiates, as in Dover s powder, produce this efleft with greater certainty than the above. 

As a nauseant and sudorific, Pulvis IpecacuanhsB compositus (factitious Dover s Powder) is employed. 

P. ipecacuanha occurs in the rainforests of Meso and South America. It was traditionally used in the Brazilian folk medicine. In the seventeenth century, the plant was brought by traders to France, and soon it found application in Europe as treatment against dysentery. The British physician Thomas Dover invented a special preparation P. ipecacuanha that was named Dover s powder after him. It consisted of Ipecacuanha root, opium, and potassium sulphate and was used as diaphoretic and medicine against cold and fever. 

Tablets of Aspirin and Dover s Powder, B.P.C. Contain 2 grains each of aspirin and Dover s powder.

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