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 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 Peck, John Mason

For if the oxidizable miasma are destroyed by atmospheric ozone, they, in turn, cause the latter to disappear, and we have seen that it is itself a miasm.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 455 Volume 18, New Series, September 18, 1852 by Chambers, Robert

All over Europe the people fear a current of air as if veritable miasm must lurk in it.

From A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science by Williams, Henry Smith

The conclusion drawn from this experiment is, that the ozone destroyed the miasm by oxidation, and could only make its presence evident after the complete destruction of the noxious volatile substances.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 455 Volume 18, New Series, September 18, 1852 by Chambers, Robert