miasmatic การใช้

The miasmatic theory advocated that disease was transmitted by smell and foul odors arising from putrefaction of organic matter.
Medieval European doctors generally held the view that disease was related to the air and adopted a miasmatic approach to disease etiology.
From the nineteenth century credence was given to the idea that disease was spread by foul air, according to miasmatic theory.
The miasmatic position was that diseases were the product of environmental factors such as contaminated water, foul air, and poor hygienic conditions.
All this time Antwerp was only seven or eight miles away, but still the troops waited, suffering from miasmatic fever and dysentery.