miasm

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By the 1880s most physicians subscribed to the germ theory of disease, discarding the miasm idea, touted by Hippocrates in the fourth century B.C.

From Scientific American • Nov. 6, 2021

All over Europe the people fear a current of air as if veritable miasm must lurk in it.

From A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science by Williams, Henry Smith

Hitherto the cause of contagion, by which certain maladies spread from individual to individual, had been a total mystery, quite unillumined by the vague terms "miasm," "humor," "virus," and the like cloaks of ignorance.

From A History of Science — Volume 4 by Williams, Henry Smith

Rats, however, are commonly infected as if by a miasm before the disease appears in man.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin

Roll and others studied the contagiousness of influenza, and, finding it so much more virulent and permanent in old stables than elsewhere, classed it as a "stall miasm."

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.