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

If the Sulphur miasm gains the ascendancy, there will be no marked improvement during the first days of the treatment.

From Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent by Wolf, C. W.

The answer to the second question which is best supported is, that the malarial poison is brought into the system principally by breathing an atmosphere impregnated with this miasm.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

The miasm in the latter case is therefore endoecic, or more exactly entoichic.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 by Various

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.