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What is a miasm?

What is a miasm? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An unhealthy vapor or atmosphere; a miasma.
  2. (homeopathy) A predisposition to a particular disease, which interferes with subsequent treatment of it.
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The miasm in the latter case is therefore endoecic, or more exactly entoichic.
He said that he had been riding near the Whitney Pond, and perceived a different odor, and thought he must have inhaled the miasm.
These lakes are usually full of vegetable matter undergoing decomposition, and which produces large quantities of miasm.
Chamomilla belongs to the typhoid miasm, with an intensity between acute or psora, whose features are an intense, short, do-or-die effort alternating with collapse.
The sycotic miasm is the one that has the greatest tendency to overgrowth and hence obesity.
More recently it has been referred by Fabre6 to vaso-motor disturbance due to a miasm.

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