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Definition of Miasmata
1. miasma [n] - See also: miasma
Lexicographical Neighbors of Miasmata
Literary usage of Miasmata
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Influence of Tropical Climates on European Constitutions: To which is by James Johnson (1827)
"... limit of the yellow fever, and the lowest limit of the vegetation of the oak.
Section II.—miasmata have no smell by which they can be distinguished. ..."
2. The History, diagnosis, and treatment of the fevers of the United States by Elisha Bartlett (1856)
"... the disease to the unknown cause or causes of the latter, called marsh miasmata,
developed in unusual quantity, or endowed with extraordinary virulence. ..."
3. The Journal of Foreign Medical Science and Literature edited by Samuel Emlen (1814)
"... and beneficial influence of Marsh miasmata in Pulmonary Diseases, with two
remarkable cures at Ostend, of Haemoptysis, and of Consumption; ..."
4. The Useful Metals and Their Alloys: Including Mining Ventilation, Mining by John Scoffern (1857)
"It is unnecessary to enter at length into the effect of the variety of exhalations
and miasmata proceeding from the putrid fermentations of animal and ..."
5. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1820)
"... on the nature and properties of the marsh poison, as known under the titles
of Marsh miasmata and Malaria, wherein the author endeavoured to prove, ..."
6. A Manual of Scientific Enquiry: Prepared for the Use of Officers in Her by Great Britain Admiralty, Robert Main (1871)
"The distance to which terrestrial miasmata may be borne by the external air has
been so variously estimated, that correct information on the subject would ..."
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