miasmatic theory造句

• The miasmatic theory advocated that disease was transmitted by smell and foul odors arising from putrefaction of organic matter.
• From the nineteenth century credence was given to the idea that disease was spread by foul air, according to miasmatic theory.
• Chadwick's proposals were based on the miasmatic theory of disease transmission, which was proven to be false following the turn of the 1900s.
• The masks were designed to protect them from putrid air, which ( according to the miasmatic theory of disease ) was seen as the cause of infection.
• This reflected current " miasmatic theory " accepted by the medical profession : that disease was transmitted by breathing air contaminated with noxious vapours from decomposing organic matter.
• Because of the miasmatic theory's predominance among Italian scientists, the discovery in the same year by Filippo Pacini of the bacillus that caused the disease was completely ignored.
• The miasmatic theory of disease remained popular in the Middle Ages and a sense of " effluvia " contributed to Robert Boyle's " Suspicions about the Hidden Realities of the Air ".
• The miasmatic theory was challenged by John Snow, suggesting that there was some means by which the disease was spread via a poison or morbid material ( orig : * materies morbi * ) in the water.
• The mask was originally beaked with a purpose in congruence with the miasmatic theory of disease practiced at that time : the hollow beak allowed for the containment of flowers and other sweet-smelling substances designed to keep away the foul odors that were thought to spread infection.
• As to public health, Koch's bacteriologists feuded with Max von Pettenkofer whose miasmatic theory claimed the bacteria was but one causal factor among at least several but von Pettenkoffer stubbornly opposed water treatment, and the massive cholera epidemic in Hamburg, Germany, in 1892 devastated von Pettenkofer's position, and German public health was grounded on Koch's bacteriology.