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Could someone format the book I mention? and if possible wikilink some of the stuff like cholera or typhus. I'm a noob and don't know how to do it. Help very much appreciated.
A '''miasma''' is a poisonous atmosphere formerly thought to rise from [[swamp]]s and putrid matter and cause [[disease]]. [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/miasmas]
A '''miasma''' is a poisonous atmosphere formerly thought to rise from [[swamp]]s and putrid matter and cause [[disease]]. [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/miasmas]
Miasmas were for a long time equalled to stench. Thus sewers, but also peasants and common workers, who could not afford to bathe regularly were associated with diseases.
Miasma was thought to be the cause of diseases like pest, cholera and typhus. The idea of the miasma was disproven by the emergence of the bacteriologists like Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur.
Corbin, Alain: Pesthauch und Blütenduft. 2005
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