Eating became extremely difficult as unburied corpses became bloated and putrid. In maturity it smells like putrid flesh. The affected part is edematous, soft, putrid, rotten, and dark. Over fifty dead horses greeted them with their putrid smell. It is a colorless gas with a distinctive putrid smell. Fermented fish preparations can be notable for their putrid smell. Smoke rises from heaps of putrid flesh. The fermented doma has a putrid odour, which can be smelled from miles. They have been recorded eating carrion exclusively, some which is fed on even when putrid. Chloride of lime was used for destroying odors and "putrid matter". He also noted that putrid material is full of innumerable creeping animalcules. She catches cold, which becomes putrid fever. A surviving fragment of Plato Comicus speaks of "putrid garum". Valdemar's putrid body rises from the bed and kills Carmichael. Elliot Garfield (Dreyfuss) describes his performance as "putrid".