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

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

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)

Many a fever has been caused by the poisonous miasm thus generated.

From American Woman's Home by Beecher, Catharine Esther