Crossword clues for argyrol
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Argyrol \Argyrol\ n. 1. a compound of protein and silver used as a mild antiseptic; Argyrol is the trademark.
Syn: mild silver protein.
Wikipedia
Argyrol is the trade name for an antiseptic consisting of compounded solutions at varying strengths of mild silver protein. Argyrol is synonymous with the chemical mild silver protein. It is manufactured in the chemical industry to pharmaceutical grade only, using denatured pharmaceutical-grade protein for ophthalmic application and elemental silver, to produce the silver protein molecule. While employed with Mulford & Co. (which became Merck & Co.), the American physician Dr. Albert Coombs Barnes recruited chemist Dr. Hermann Hille in Germany. They returned to the United States and left Mulford together to launch Argyrol, developed and commercialized by Barnes as a Prevention Technology for use on mucous membranes to resolve local infections in mucous-membrane-lined organs, most widely publicized for its value to resolve gonorrhea infections and to prevent gonorrheal blindness and other pathogenic infections to the eyes of newborn infants.
Usage examples of "argyrol".
She washed their eyes with boric acid and Argyrol, to prevent infection.
The veterinarian bowed to it, opened his bag and poured a generous measure of argyrol onto a swab.
I merely noted that argyrol, with which Todd-Mortimer cured the first sheep, contains silver.