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

From it arises a miasm, a phosphorescent glow.

From The Memoirs of Victor Hugo by Hugo, Victor

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

The miasm in the latter case is therefore endoecic, or more exactly entoichic.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 by Various

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