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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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He said that he had been riding near the Whitney Pond, and perceived a different odor, and thought he must have inhaled the miasm.
The miasm in the latter case is therefore endoecic, or more exactly entoichic.
In fact, it is a very powerful centrifugal remedy suitable to mixed miasm dominated by sycosis.
More recently it has been referred by Fabre6 to vaso-motor disturbance due to a miasm.
Rats, however, are commonly infected as if by a miasm before the disease appears in man.
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.

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