Explore: Foul Air

the tunnel, and spent six hours assisting, until she was "driven back by foul air." Caving veteran Bob Leakey, who heard the appeal from the police via a

were the product of environmental factors such as contaminated water, foul air, and poor hygienic conditions. Such infection was not passed between individuals

short sections of underwater passage as the result of the air in an air bell becoming foul. Three cavers were killed by a rock fall in Ease Gill Caverns

identifiable by its foul smell. The theory posited that diseases were the product of environmental factors such as contaminated water, foul air, and poor hygienic

are precipitous in many places and entry is limited. The presence of "Foul air", dangerous levels of CO2 or O2, is common in the Bungonia caves, especially

Bradsher, Keith (30 November 1997). "Light Trucks Increase Profits But Foul Air More than Cars". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 April 2010. Hunting,

in the same cubbyhole without air or light. In some houses on Baxter or Mulberry Street there is so much dirt and foul air it would seem impossible that

killing 10,738. Medical opinion at the time held that cholera was caused by foul air: a so-called "miasma". Physician John Snow had earlier advanced a different

personal foul is a breach of the rules concerning personal contact with an opponent. It is the most common type of foul in basketball. A player fouls out on

miasma theory of disease, which held that diseases are spread by foul air—in this case fouled by the stench of decomposing corpses. Confusion between normal