It is also known today why honey has an antiseptic effect: when producing honey, bees add an enzyme called glucose-oxidase.That's as may be, but there's a much simpler phenomenon at play, here. The high sugar content of they honey sucks the bacteria dry by osmosis. Plain old granulated sugar will work just as well.
Two weeks ago I used "Sugar Dyne" on a dog's leg that had developed gangrene after a gunshot wound became contaminated and was unattended for three days before I saw it. I had to amputate the leg and the gangrene had spread but the "sugar Dyne" at the distal portion of the amputation kept the gangrene from spreading. It worked really well.
"sugar Dyne" is a mixture of sugar and betadyne.