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  • Thomas Dover, physician and entrepreneur (1660–1742)

    Oh, Dover was a pirate and he sailed the Spanish MainA hacking cough convulsed him and he had agonizing pain.So he mixed himself a powder, which he liked more and more.Ipecac and opium and K2SO4 1 Thomas Dover was an English physician who in 1732 invented a patent medicine known as “Dover’s Powder.” It consisted…