Word: argyrol
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Barnes was the classic American self-made man. The son of a black-Irish Philadelphia butcher, he went through medical school and made his fortune in the early 1900s on an antiseptic, which he developed in partnership with a German chemist and registered under the trade name Argyrol. Even before World War I, Barnes was a millionaire -- a word with meaning then. And he was developing a curiosity about modern...