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
The miasm in the latter case is therefore endoecic, or more exactly entoichic.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 by Various
Rats, however, are commonly infected as if by a miasm before the disease appears in man.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin
If there is any fact well established by satisfactory experience, it is that thorough and judicious draining will entirely remove the local source of the miasm which produces these diseases.
From Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health by Waring, George E. (George Edwin)
A bilious fever fattens in the sun as does miasm in a marshy valley.
From Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics by Steele, Joel Dorman
