If you talk to people I'd say millions and millions of people probably believe that things like rainfall influence symptoms of joint pain and stiffness.
Astronauts even had problems with regolith during the short Apollo missions, when it built up in their spacesuits and equipment stiffening joints, freezing switches and disrupting hydraulics.
And shall I hang back, when Tellson’s knows this and says this—Tellson’s, whose bread I have eaten these sixty years—because I am a little stiff about the joints?
And shall I hang back, when Tellson's knows this and says this—Tellson's, whose bread I have eaten these sixty years—because I am a little stiff about the joints?
I could see nothing of the room except the shining of the fire in the window-glass, but I stiffened in all my joints with the consciousness that I was under close inspection.