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

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 Michener, Charles B.

The sporadic poisons have an intimate relationship with dampness; miasm lives in it as does a snail in his shell.

From Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics by Steele, Joel Dorman

Rats, however, are commonly infected as if by a miasm before the disease appears in man.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin

The answer to the second question which is best supported is, that the malarial poison is brought into the system principally by breathing an atmosphere impregnated with this miasm.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various