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

He said that he had been riding near the Whitney Pond, and perceived a different odor, and thought he must have inhaled the miasm.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 by Various

From it arises a miasm, a phosphorescent glow.

From The Memoirs of Victor Hugo by Hugo, Victor

Indeed, there is probably very little difference in the miasm thrown off from decomposed vegetable matter, and that produced from sluggish streams, standing waters and marshes.

From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by Peck, John Mason

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

From American Woman's Home by Beecher, Catharine Esther