On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 23:30:29 GMT, "mark" wrote:

I always seem to have patchy arm hair....bad habit I picked up from a knife
and sword-making buddy of mine.

Knifemaker's Mange. Confused the hell out of my acupuncturist. She
thought it was an iron deficiency, but I explained that was one
mineral I certainly wasn't short of.