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

Indeed, there is probably very little difference in the miasm thrown off from decomposed vegetable matter, and that produced from sluggish streams, standing waters and marshes.

From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by Peck, John Mason

I decidedly prefer this climate, with all its miasm, to New-England, with its northeast winds, and damp, "raw" and pulmonary atmosphere.

From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by Peck, John Mason

If there is any fact well established by satisfactory experience, it is that thorough and judicious draining will entirely remove the local source of the miasm which produces these diseases.

From Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health by Waring, George E. (George Edwin)

But this afternoon a miasm hung over him.

From Hilda A Story of Calcutta by Duncan, Sara Jeannette