element

Dew

Elements · Nature

Night water beaded on cool surfaces. Folklore and farming notice it; it is not rain, and not mist.

  • Dew is used in Medicine.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats dew among cold moistures gathered for cooling and related applications. A Roman-era pharmacological use of night moisture, not ice or snow as solid cold and not rainwater as a dump.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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