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miasm|ˈmaɪæz(ə)m|
Also 7–8 miasme.
[a. F. miasme: see next.]
= miasma.
1650Charleton Paradoxes Proleg. B 4, Upon every Solution of Continuity there is impressed an exotick Miasm, or putrefactive acidity. 1669W. Simpson Hydrol. Chym. 71 It carrys of..the very seminal miasmes. 1799Underwood Dis. Children (ed. 4) I. 288 Children born in an air, saturated as it were with the miasm of this disease [i.e. smallpox]..have nevertheless escaped the disease. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) II. 423 The miasm of gaol fever. 1876J. S. Bristowe Theory & Pract. Med. (1878) 282 The miasm may be carried by the wind and atmospheric currents beyond the limits of the area in which it is produced.
Add:2. Homoeopathy. [a. G. Miasm, first used in this sense by S. Hahnemann 1810, in Organon der Heilkunst 35.] Any of a group of supposed predispositions to particular diseases, originally comprising three inherited traits (those of syphilis, sycosis, and psora) but later extended to include various acquired susceptibilities.
1833Devrient & Stratten tr. Hahnemann's Organon 165 The diseases of mankind resolve themselves into two classes..acute diseases..and..chronic diseases..produced by infection from a chronic miasm. 1905J. H. Clarke Homœopathy Explained viii. 59 By ‘miasm’ Hahnemann means an infectious principle, which, when taken into the organism, may set up a specific disease. According to Hahnemann, there were not only miasms of acute diseases, like the infectious principle of scarlatina, for example, but also of chronic diseases. 1936H. A. Roberts Princ. & Art of Cure by Homœopathy iv. 43 Physical signs and symptoms appear; and all because the vital functions are disturbed either from external impressions having a depressing effect..or from some hidden miasm coming into its full expression in its impress on the vital force. 1974Homoeopathy June/July 87 Homoeopathic treatment can minimise the malign influence of the miasms, but I think it unlikely that it can eradicate them. 1980G. Vithoulkas Sci. of Homoeopathy i. ix. 130 It is clear that there are a large number of miasms, and that the total number is constantly increasing with the advent of suppressive therapies. 1987S. & R. Gibson Homoeopathy for Everyone vii. 114 Miasms are now recognized to be both inherited and acquired. |