Once there came to me a young man who for many months had been suffering from a burning sensation in his feet. After examining the many analysis he had made, all the medical specialists he had been seeing made a diagnosis of polyneuritis. He came to me as I am the consultant of a neurologist whom he had turned to.
I asked him: "How does this burning sensation get worse?" -"When I wash my feet in the bidet" - he answered. I immediately related the word "bidet" to genitals. The only thing I said to him was : "You have got your sex in your feet". It is not your feet that are burning, actually it is your sex, that's why it gets worse when you wash your feet in the bidet". The pain stopped and he no more suffered from it.

One day there called me a colleague of mine saying she could not smell anything. I asked her:" Who do you not feel?" - "My husband, since he has been unfaithful to me" - " Go to the kitchen and smell some spices". She came back after a while: she could smell again.

A lady came to me as she had been suffering from pruriginous wheals for four years. They had manifested themselves for the first time after a perm. Inquiring about her life I came to know she was Piedmontese and moved to Sardinia after marriage. She was an only child and quite anxious for her parents living in Piedmont. She longed to go back to her native place, but for family reasons she had to stay in Sardinia. I made her notice the coincidence between the word "perm" and her problem of remaining (being permanent) here in Sardinia. She laughed and recovered.