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
If this should not be the case, if the eruption should appear again, we may rest assured that a psoric miasm lurks in the organism, and that an anti-psoric treatment has to be resorted to.
From Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent by Wolf, C. W.
But this afternoon a miasm hung over him.
From Hilda A Story of Calcutta by Duncan, Sara Jeannette
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
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
