miasma theory in Podcasts
conceptA theory suggesting disease spread through bad air from swamps, sewers, and organic decay, prevalent in Victorian medical thought.
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The word miasma comes from Greek meaning pollution or stain and the idea that certain kinds of air, particularly the air rising from swamps, rotting organic matter, open sewers and densely inhabited spaces could carry illness into the body.