miasm
Example Sentences
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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
But this afternoon a miasm hung over him.
From Hilda A Story of Calcutta by Duncan, Sara Jeannette
The Jesuit Missionaries, the frontier traders, and the French voyageurs, have lived and died there; yet we have never heard of any prevalent disease, or local miasm.
From Old Mackinaw The Fortress of the Lakes and its Surroundings by Strickland, W. P. (William Peter)
It is the From it rises a miasm, a phosphorescent glow.
From The Memoirs of Victor Hugo by Hugo, Victor
Hitherto the cause of contagion, by which certain maladies spread from individual to individual, had been a total mystery, quite unillumined by the vague terms "miasm," "humor," "virus," and the like cloaks of ignorance.
From A History of Science — Volume 4 by Williams, Henry Smith
