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 Henry Smith Williams
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 Charles B. Michener
It is the From it rises a miasm, a phosphorescent glow.
From The Memoirs of Victor Hugo by Victor Hugo
From it arises a miasm, a phosphorescent glow.
From The Memoirs of Victor Hugo by Victor Hugo
