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Definition of Miasmas
1. miasma [n] - See also: miasma
Lexicographical Neighbors of Miasmas
Literary usage of Miasmas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Spiritism: A Study of Its Phenomena and Religious Teachings by Theodore Graebner (1919)
"miasmas from the Pit. ON the authority of a large number of scientifically trained
investigators, the objective reality and genuineness of the so-called ..."
2. Public Health Papers and Reports by American Public Health Association (1893)
"... though they may be well and perfectly ventilated, may induce us to presume
that carbonic acid and miasmas are not thoroughly dislodged by diffusion, ..."
3. Handbook of Climatology by Julius von Hann (1903)
"These miasmas were supposed to be noxious gases, but they have recently been
shown to be organic germs which, when taken into the body, may further develop ..."
4. The Atmosphere by Camille Flammarion (1873)
"miasmas, the propagators of epidemics, are superinduced by the aerial currents;
the cholera, the small-pox, the yellow fever, and the diseases which ..."
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