The beds of seaweed, in a constant state of decomposition on the Pacific shore, create miasmata unquestionably injurious to health.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843] Reference

Swampy districts in Holland have been made habitable by an extensive culture of the Sunflower, the malarial miasmata being absorbed and nullified, whilst pure oxygen is emitted abundantly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

It cleanses the atmosphere, and sweeps away the poisonous miasmata, which have been engendered during a period of quiescence, and which must, if not removed, prove prejudicial to human life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Religion in Earnest A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York] Reference

The miasmata appear to ascend until they reach the level of the town above, where the atmosphere being less dense, and perhaps precisely of their own specific gravity, they float, and commingle with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America] Reference

After all those who fought and paid with their lives ... they didn't see us as patriots who fought against the conquering armies, but as evil spirits (miasmata), evil communist spirits as they called us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity] Reference

Marsh miasmata are generally the cause of intermittent fevers.    From Wordnik.com.  [James Cutbush An American Chemist, 1788-1823] Reference

He also carried a large jar full of chlorine water, to keep off all miasmata.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Bovary] Reference

Page 19 water of the Gulf waves prevents the extrication of miasmata at the Balize.    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

The air, purer and less charged with miasmata and heterogeneous emanations, becomes at the same time drier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference

It thus aids in maintaining the balance of life, and cleanses the swamps of miasmata, thus purifying the air we breathe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference

Page 12 to whose particular department of philosophical knowledge, chemistry, this subject of miasmata properly belongs.    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

In the stagnant air of the Upper Orinoco the chemical affinities act more powerfully, and more deleterious miasmata are formed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference

The lungs thus become a ready inlet to contagion, miasmata, and other poisonous influences diffused through the air we breathe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes] Reference

We sleep, too, among the trees, clear off the ground, where there are dangerous vapours, so that we are free from all miasmata.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.] Reference

I wished only to convince you that the miasmata (as you call them) of the bibliomaniacal disease had reached our Sister Kingdom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance] Reference

It is common enough for travellers to feel no effects from miasmata till, on arriving in a purer atmosphere, they begin to enjoy repose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference

Ancient philosophers seem to have believed, that the contagious miasmata in their warm climates affected horses and dogs previous to mankind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

Soon he returned with an arm load -- the poison of spiders, the venom of serpents, the miasmata of swamps, the juice of the deadly nightshade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year] Reference

Were it not for the miasmata which infect the atmosphere, the valleys of Aroa and of Yaracuy would perhaps be more populous than those of Aragua.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference

Here you may freeze out all your “miasmata” and surplus bile in ten days, and go to Columbia with nerves well strung and blood well purified.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Aaron Burr]

Mange exerts a morbid constitutional action on the skin; it is infectious from various miasmata, and it is contagious from personal communication.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dog] Reference

The frequency of gnats and mosquitos characterises unhealthy climates only so far as the development and multiplication of these insects depend on the same causes that give rise to miasmata.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference

At the coast there are dangerous miasmata which often prove fatal to Europeans, but the interior of this part of South America is reported by later travellers to be no less wholesome than Raleigh found it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Raleigh] Reference

A large jar full of chlorine water, to keep off all miasmata.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Bovary] Reference

(miasmata) in the air inhaled by all the people of an afflicted region.    From Wordnik.com.  [HEALTH AND DISEASE] Reference

"I believe it would be found that the compound (carburet of azote) is the basis of the miasmata which produces malignant, bilious diseases.    From Wordnik.com.  [James Cutbush An American Chemist, 1788-1823] Reference

"It has been observed" (I quote from Becquerel) "that humid air, charged with miasmata, is deprived of them in passing through the forest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth as Modified by Human Action] Reference

He says, "A mixture of fresh and salt water in marshes appears to enhance the copiousness and virulence of miasmata to a very obvious degree.    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

Now this night-breeze coming through that half-open jalousie -- miasmata -- and all that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rattlin the Reefer] Reference