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. From Wordnik.com. [Howells Rediscovered] Reference
Nevertheless, you used the term "miasm", did not provide a recent definition, and I looked up Hahnemann's descriptions. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
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 them. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
"miasm" to refer to diseased states and syndromes that are passed on genetically. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Ground newly broken is not unapt to generate miasm. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
A bilious fever fattens in the sun as does miasm in a marshy valley. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
Besides miasm, there are other atmospheric associations to be considered. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
The miasm in the latter case is therefore endoecic, or more exactly entoichic. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883] Reference
If the Sulphur miasm gains the ascendancy, there will be no marked improvement during the first days of the treatment. From Wordnik.com. [Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883] Reference
This property of adhering to smooth surfaces explains perhaps the power of the Eucalyptus globulus in arresting the progress of paludal miasm (?). From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883] Reference
These explanations likewise point out the true course to be pursued, in case we should at the outset find that a whitlow owes its existence to the psoric miasm. From Wordnik.com. [Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent] Reference
It is the From it rises a miasm, a phosphorescent glow. From Wordnik.com. [The Memoirs of Victor Hugo] Reference
I tried to find more information on precisely what a miasm. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Many a fever has been caused by the poisonous miasm thus generated. From Wordnik.com. [American Woman's Home] Reference
Many a fever has been caused, by the poisonous miasm thus generated. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School] Reference
This, I believe, the sequel will show is not the case with miasm and the so-called miasmatic diseases. From Wordnik.com. [An Address before the Medical Society of North Carolina, at Its Second Annual Meeting, in Raleigh, May 1851, by Charles E. Johnson, M.D.] Reference
Page 25 moisture, stagnant ponds, or other sources of miasm, as both the earth and the atmosphere were remarkably dry. From Wordnik.com. [An Address before the Medical Society of North Carolina, at Its Second Annual Meeting, in Raleigh, May 1851, by Charles E. Johnson, M.D.] Reference
These lakes are usually full of vegetable matter undergoing decomposition, and which produces large quantities of miasm. From Wordnik.com. [A New Guide for Emigrants to the West] Reference
From the above extracts, which have been selected without much care, it will be seen that miasm consists mainly, if not entirely. From Wordnik.com. [An Address before the Medical Society of North Carolina, at Its Second Annual Meeting, in Raleigh, May 1851, by Charles E. Johnson, M.D.] Reference
I decidedly prefer this climate, with all its miasm, to New-England, with its northeast winds, and damp, "raw" and pulmonary atmosphere. From Wordnik.com. [A New Guide for Emigrants to the West] Reference
It seems completely circular and information free: a miasm seems to be a set of symptoms indicating that an anti-miasmic remedy is needed. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
For if the oxidizable miasma are destroyed by atmospheric ozone, they, in turn, cause the latter to disappear, and we have seen that it is itself a miasm. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 455 Volume 18, New Series, September 18, 1852] Reference
Sycotic - As sycosis is the miasm which disturbs the pigment metabolism and produces hyperpigmentation and depigmentation in patches or diffuse in different parts. From Wordnik.com. [Best Syndication -] Reference
Their facing, at least, should consist of stone or brick, else they will become, in time, masses of dissolving vegetable matter, and abundant sources of febrile miasm. From Wordnik.com. [An Address before the Medical Society of North Carolina, at Its Second Annual Meeting, in Raleigh, May 1851, by Charles E. Johnson, M.D.] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference
It is not necessary that land should be absolutely marshy to produce the miasm, for this often arises on cold, springy uplands which are quite free from deposits of muck. From Wordnik.com. [Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health] Reference
Indeed, there is probably very little difference in the miasm thrown off from decomposed vegetable matter, and that produced from sluggish streams, standing waters and marshes. From Wordnik.com. [A New Guide for Emigrants to the West] Reference
And the thickening prospects whence sprang the miasm that infected the whole moral atmosphere -- alas, yes!. From Wordnik.com. [Queechy] Reference
and the thickening prospects whence sprang the miasm that infected the whole moral atmosphere alas, yes!. From Wordnik.com. [Queechy, Volume II] Reference
– and the thickening prospects whence sprang the miasm that infected the whole moral atmosphere – alas, yes!. From Wordnik.com. [Queechy] Reference
Sufficiently authentic cases are recorded to show that the influence of marsh miasm extends several miles. ". From Wordnik.com. [Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health] Reference
Francisella tularensis "were substituted for miasm; there is no additional definition in the article. three fundamental 'miasms' underlie of all the chronic diseases of mankind. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
But this afternoon a miasm hung over him. From Wordnik.com. [Hilda A Story of Calcutta] Reference
From it arises a miasm, a phosphorescent glow. From Wordnik.com. [The Memoirs of Victor Hugo] Reference
Though the mist is miasm, the Upas tree's breath. From Wordnik.com. [East and West Poems] Reference
Notes on marsh miasm. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883] Reference
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