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
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 Robert Chambers
Many a fever has been caused by the poisonous miasm thus generated.
From American Woman's Home by Catharine Esther Beecher
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 Henry Smith Williams
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
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