Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is versed in the phenomena and nature of noxious exhalations; one who makes a special study of diseases arising from miasmata.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who has made a special study of miasma.
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- noun One who studies
miasma .
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Examples
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Brown, a decided miasmatist, confirms this statement, and adds: "He has repeatedly observed that cases of fever and ague abounded in parts of Estremadura, so remote from the Gandiana or any stream, that no influence from visible water or dampness could be supposed to have a share in their production."
An Address before the Medical Society of North Carolina, at Its Second Annual Meeting, in Raleigh, May 1851, by Charles E. Johnson, M.D. Charles Earl 1851
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-- Such a condition of things, in so hot a climate, might, apriori, be claimed by the miasmatist as the very focus of miasms; but let us see what are the opinions of some distinguished medical gentlemen, themselves believers in the doctrine of the miasmatic origin of disease, upon this subject.
An Address before the Medical Society of North Carolina, at Its Second Annual Meeting, in Raleigh, May 1851, by Charles E. Johnson, M.D. Charles Earl 1851
chained_bear commented on the word miasmatist
"The miasmatists had plenty of science and statistics and anecdotal evidence to demonstrate that the smells of London weren't killing people. But their gut instincts—or, more like it, their amygdalas—were telling them otherwise."
—Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map (New York: Penguin, 2006), 130–131
October 2, 2008