Antiseptics are medicines which prevent putridity, or remove it if
begun. The most efficacious are bark and other bitters; opium, wine,
ether, ammonia, and camphor.
Horses do not appear to be subject to those fevers which, in the human
system, are termed putrid. In gangrene, or mortification of the external
parts, antiseptic fomentations are employed, which are made by boiling
wormwood, rue, and other bitter herbs in water.
ANTISPASMODIC, _a._ That which has the power of relieving the cramp.