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The miasma theory (also called the miasmic theory) is an abandoned medical theory that held that diseases—such as cholera, chlamydia, or the Black Death—were...

However, such views were held in disdain in Europe, where Galen's miasma theory remained dominant among scientists and doctors. By the early 19th century...

and objects. Some aspects of discarded theories are reused in modern explanations. For example, miasma theory proposed that all diseases were transmitted...

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Shannon Lucas, formerly of All That Remains. The album's title, Miasma, refers to Miasma theory. The track "Dave Goes to Hollywood" was originally entitled...

and scientists held two competing theories on the causes of cholera in the human body: miasma theory and germ theory. The London medical community debated...

discovered that malaria was caused by a protozoan parasite in 1880, the miasma theory began to subside. An important discovery was made by Patrick Manson...

Attempts to cleanse a city or a society from miasma may have the opposite effect of reinforcing it. Miasma theory Panacea (medicine) Armstrong, p. 64–65. Armstrong...

widely held miasma theory of disease. These findings led medical science to what we now know as the germ theory of disease. The germ theory of disease...

Charles Darwin's natural selection. 1880 – The germ theory of disease began overtaking Galen's miasma theory. 1905 – The development of quantum mechanics, which...

unaware of a literal fracture in his leg. Audience chair legs Various folk-theories propose that Elizabethan or even Ancient Greek theatrical audiences either...

other waterborne diseases, the miasma theory was used to justify the outbreaks of these illnesses. Miasma theory is the theory that certain diseases and illnesses...

conjunction of planets had caused "a great pestilence in the air" (miasma theory). Muslim religious scholars taught that the pandemic was a "martyrdom...

themselves and to be destroyable by fire. In this way he refuted Galen's miasma theory (poison gas in sick people). In 1543 he wrote a book De contagione et...

scientific research to understand the etiology of the disease. The miasma theory, which posited that infections spread through contaminated air, was...

Communication of Cholera, which posited the theory of the water-borne transmission of disease, rather than the miasma theory; little attention was paid to the paper...

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superstition that wishing someone "good luck" is in fact bad luck. There are many theories as to the origin of Toi toi toi as an idiom. In folklore it was used to...

cannabis culture. In 2017, Snopes.com published an article discrediting the theory, noting that Bic did not begin producing white disposable lighters until...

century, the miasma theory was also widely accepted. The theory viewed diseases such as cholera or the Black Plague as being caused by a miasma, a noxious...