miasmatic

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Up until that point, diseases like cholera had been thought of in miasmatic terms - that they travelled in bad air - and tackled with what Prof Chakrabarti called "broad spectrum treatments".

From BBC • Dec. 10, 2020

In 1867, inspired by the miasmatic tenements of America’s burgeoning cities, the engineer Lewis W. Leeds delivered a series of lectures under the title “Man’s Own Breath Is His Greatest Enemy.”

From The New Yorker • Apr. 1, 2019

But Acland’s research had another big advantage: Its conclusions supported the prevailing miasmatic theory of disease, which had been developed over centuries.

From Scientific American • Jan. 29, 2019

“The myth of the hero who singlehandedly wrecked miasmatic theory obscures the fact that those who held onto it were also thoughtful fellows,” Cairo writes.

From Scientific American • Jan. 29, 2019

Again, two persons may be exposed to the same atmospheric conditions, or be brought within a similar miasmatic influence, resulting in the one case in fever; in the other, in nothing.

From Insanity Its Causes and Prevention by Stearns, Henry Putnam