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unhealthy vapors rising from the ground or other sources; an unwholesome atmosphere

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  • This procession of misdeeds, passing under their eyes day after day must leave a certain miasm of moral death behind it, which no prison or work-house can hereafter cure.
  • Nevertheless, you used the term "miasm", did not provide a recent definition, and I looked up Hahnemann's descriptions.
  • Since Hahnemann was the source given, it is not totally unreasonable to believe that no, perhaps homeopaths, using Hahnemann's term "miasm", still used his definition of...
  • "miasm" to refer to diseased states and syndromes that are passed on genetically.
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