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
The miasm in the latter case is therefore endoecic, or more exactly entoichic.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 by Various
Many a fever has been caused, by the poisonous miasm thus generated.
From A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School by Catharine Esther Beecher
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
It is not a miasm, in the common signification of the term; it does not carry with it any poison; it is not vegetable matter in decomposition, but it flourishes by preference amid the last.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 by Various
