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
These explanations likewise point out the true course to be pursued, in case we should at the outset find that a whitlow owes its existence to the psoric miasm.
From Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent by C. W. Wolf
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
The essential, efficient, producing cause of periodical fever,—the poison whose action on the system gives rise to the disease,—is a substance or agent which has received the names of malaria, or marsh miasm.
From Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health by George E. (George Edwin) Waring
These lakes are usually full of vegetable matter undergoing decomposition, and which produces large quantities of miasm.
From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by John Mason Peck
