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Edited by Jeffrey D. Bernhard. 454 pp., illustrated. New York, Mcgraw-Hill, 1994. $50. ISBN 0-07-004935-1.

Did you know most itches target a small area that gets bigger as you scratch? Did you know there are different kinds of itch, just as there are different kinds of pain? Did you know that morphine inhibits pain and promotes itch, whereas naloxone and other morphine antagonists relieve itch? Did you know that pain will kill itch? How does scratching relieve itch, and why does it sometimes paradoxically beget more itching? Why does scratching lead a sleeping person to a stage of lighter sleep? The answers are in Itch: Mechanisms and Management of Pruritus.

A chapter called "Pruritic Curiosities" . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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