miasmatic
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But the microscope has discovered in the miasmatic air a multitude of living things.
From Scientific American • Nov. 6, 2021
Up until that point, diseases like cholera had been thought of in miasmatic terms - that they travelled in bad air - and tackled with what Prof Chakrabarti called "broad spectrum treatments".
From BBC • Dec. 10, 2020
In 1867, inspired by the miasmatic tenements of America’s burgeoning cities, the engineer Lewis W. Leeds delivered a series of lectures under the title “Man’s Own Breath Is His Greatest Enemy.”
From The New Yorker • Apr. 1, 2019
“The myth of the hero who singlehandedly wrecked miasmatic theory obscures the fact that those who held onto it were also thoughtful fellows,” Cairo writes.
From Scientific American • Jan. 29, 2019
These waters being without outlet, overflowed on all sides, forming puddles and filthy holes which exhaled miasmatic and fœtid odors.
From The Barber of Paris by Kock, Charles Paul de
