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

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

Roll and others studied the contagiousness of influenza, and, finding it so much more virulent and permanent in old stables than elsewhere, classed it as a "stall miasm."

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.

From it arises a miasm, a phosphorescent glow.

From The Memoirs of Victor Hugo by Hugo, Victor

But this afternoon a miasm hung over him.

From Hilda A Story of Calcutta by Duncan, Sara Jeannette