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

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

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 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 Waring, George E. (George Edwin)

Dogma makes dogmas or dogmata; exanthema, exanthemas or exanthemata; miasm or miasma, miasms or miasmata; stigma, stigmas or stigmata.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold