In addition to ideas associated with zymotic theory, there was also a general fear that cold or cool air spread disease.

Zyme or microzyme was the name of a germ presumed to be the cause of zymotic diseases.

Zymotic diseases (for the Greek language term zumoun for "ferment")

Based on "zymotic" theory, people believed vapors called "miasma" (plural "miasmata") rose from the soil and spread diseases.

He warned that the 10,000 privy pits and cesspools in the city were the primary source of zymotic diseases, including typhoid, scarlet fever, and diphtheria.

The Royal Military Hospital Haslar had a number of notable specialist medical facilities, including a decompression chamber and a zymotic isolation ward.

The items successively attracting his interest ran approximately as follows: PRECAUTION-Avoid impure water from wells and cisterns, the fertile sources of zymotic diseases .

Zymotic diseases (for the Greek language term zumoun for "ferment"), an obsolete term in medicine, formerly applied to the class of acute infectious maladies, presumed to be due to some virus or organism which acts in the system like a ferment.

As applied to the origin of disease, the theory claims that the zymotic diseases are due to the rapid development and multiplication of various bacteria, the germs or spores of which are either contained in the organism itself, or transferred through the air or water.