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
Hitherto the cause of contagion, by which certain maladies spread from individual to individual, had been a total mystery, quite unillumined by the vague terms "miasm," "humor," "virus," and the like cloaks of ignorance.
From A History of Science — Volume 4 by Henry Smith Williams
It is the From it rises a miasm, a phosphorescent glow.
From The Memoirs of Victor Hugo by Victor Hugo
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 not necessary that land should be absolutely marshy to produce the miasm, for this often arises on cold, springy uplands which are quite free from deposits of muck.
From Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health by George E. (George Edwin) Waring
