Miasma was thought to be the cause of diseases like pest, [[cholera]] and [[typhus]]. The idea of the miasma was disproved by the emergence of the bacteriologists like Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur. | Miasma was thought to be the cause of diseases like pest, [[cholera]] and [[typhus]]. The idea of the miasma was disproved by the emergence of the bacteriologists like Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur. |