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 β Nov. 6, 2021
He said that he had been riding near the Whitney Pond, and perceived a different odor, and thought he must have inhaled the miasm.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 by Various
If the Sulphur miasm gains the ascendancy, there will be no marked improvement during the first days of the treatment.
From Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent by C. W. Wolf
The sporadic poisons have an intimate relationship with dampness; miasm lives in it as does a snail in his shell.
From Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics by Joel Dorman Steele
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
