miasm
Example Sentences
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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
A bilious fever fattens in the sun as does miasm in a marshy valley.
From Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics by Steele, Joel Dorman
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
It is the From it rises a miasm, a phosphorescent glow.
From The Memoirs of Victor Hugo by Hugo, Victor
From it arises a miasm, a phosphorescent glow.
From The Memoirs of Victor Hugo by Hugo, Victor
