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

Many a fever has been caused by the poisonous miasm thus generated.

From American Woman's Home by Beecher, Catharine Esther

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.

It is the From it rises a miasm, a phosphorescent glow.

From The Memoirs of Victor Hugo by Hugo, Victor

For if the oxidizable miasma are destroyed by atmospheric ozone, they, in turn, cause the latter to disappear, and we have seen that it is itself a miasm.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 455 Volume 18, New Series, September 18, 1852 by Chambers, Robert