It's blowin' right off'n ponds, and is loaded chock down with the Miasm-for a fact it is, sir."
"Hoosier Mosaics"
Maurice Thompson
Many a fever has been caused by the poisonous Miasm thus generated.
"The American Woman's Home"
Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Miasm which must have filled the air of the place from so many natural and artificial bodies of fresh water showed itself in low fevers, which were not so common as ague, but common enough.
"A Boy's Town"
W. D. Howells