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

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

From A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School by Beecher, Catharine Esther

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

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

It is not necessary that land should be absolutely marshy to produce the miasm, for this often arises on cold, springy uplands which are quite free from deposits of muck.

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

Hitherto the cause of contagion, by which certain maladies spread from individual to individual, had been a total mystery, quite unillumined by the vague terms "miasm," "humor," "virus," and the like cloaks of ignorance.

From A History of Science — Volume 4 by Williams, Henry Smith