mild silver protein

noun

Pharmacology.

a compound of silver and a protein, applied to mucous membranes as a mild antiseptic.

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He and a brilliant young German student, Hermann Hille. worked out the formula for Argyrol, a mild silver protein solution for which doctors had many uses�to treat gonorrhea, including gonorrheal blindness, relieve severe nasal congestion.