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
The conclusion drawn from this experiment is, that the ozone destroyed the miasm by oxidation, and could only make its presence evident after the complete destruction of the noxious volatile substances.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 455 Volume 18, New Series, September 18, 1852 by Robert Chambers
It is the From it rises a miasm, a phosphorescent glow.
From The Memoirs of Victor Hugo by Victor Hugo
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 John Mason Peck
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 Charles B. Michener
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