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
The steamy sea murk was thickening, and came rolling in from seaward in damp, hot miasmatic puffs.
From The Red Derelict by Mitford, Bertram