Definition of Miasm. Meaning of Miasm. Synonyms of Miasm

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Definition of Miasm

Miasm
Miasm Mi"asm, n. [Cf. F. miasme.] Miasma.

Meaning of Miasm from wikipedia

- disease. Its theory of disease, centered around principles Hahnemann termed miasms, is inconsistent with subsequent identification of viruses and bacteria...
- Look up miasma or miasm in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Miasma may refer to: Miasma (Ancient Gr**** religion), a contagious power that has an independent...
- founder of homeopathy. Hahnemann believed that all diseases were caused by "miasms", which he defined as irregularities in the patient's vital force. He also...
- translation by Charles H. Devrient was published in Dublin in 1833. Hahnemann's miasm theory, deriving from his two volume work, The Chronic Diseases published...
- Tyler Smith, who claimed that Semmelweis "made out very conclusively" that "miasms derived from the dissecting room will excite puerperal disease." One of...
- explanation of the root and cure of chronic disease according to the theory of miasms, together with a compilation of "homoeopathic proving" reports, published...
- conventional medicine, while those favoring high dilutions emphasised vital force, miasms and a spiritual interpretation of disease. Some products with both low and...
- regulations implemented in southern Italy. Elsewhere in the Papal States, the miasms produced by the maceration of both hemp and flax had already prompted the...
- with furs, while braziers heated the damp hold. Lisyansky was afraid of miasms and transferred the crew to the officers' mess before the hold will be in...
- and an apothecary" plan to deploy "twelve mines loaded with concentrated miasms and microbes of malignant fever, farcin, dysentery, measles, acute odontalgia...