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

Rats, however, are commonly infected as if by a miasm before the disease appears in man.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin

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

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 Chambers, Robert

It is not a miasm, in the common signification of the term; it does not carry with it any poison; it is not vegetable matter in decomposition, but it flourishes by preference amid the last.

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