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« Are You Listening, Food Advertisers? | Main | Barnacles, son, barnacles. » Still Grossed Out and Needing to Share"Scratching is one of the sweetest gratifications of nature, and as ready at hand as any," Montaigne wrote. "But repentance follows too annoyingly close at its heels." For M., certainly, it did: the itching was so torturous, and the area so numb, that her scratching began to go through the skin. At a later office visit, her doctor found a silver-dollar-size patch of scalp where skin had been replaced by scab. M. tried bandaging her head, wearing caps to bed. But her fingernails would always find a way to her flesh, especially while she slept. I'm so disturbed i can't read the whole article. By min | June 27, 2008, 3:40 PM | Science |