CP 05638/en
Maurice Bize to Marcel Proust 23 October 1914
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I the undersigned Doctor of Medicine certify that Monsieur Proust Marcel of 102 boulevard Haussmann suffers from very violent, daily asthmatic attacks, combined with severe physical decline and nervous weakness. For several years Monsieur Proust has been confined to his bedroom, only going outdoors for a few hours at very rare intervals and taking exceptional precautions.
Monsieur Proust has always been exempted from performing his periods of military duty and has been unable to attend any Medical Board. There is absolutely no possibility of his performing any military service.
23 October 1914[1].
Dr M. Bize
Dr Bize head of the laboratory of the Faculté de Médecine de Paris, currently acting physician 35e territorial.
Notes
- ↑ First certificate from Dr Bize, dated 23 October 1914 in his own hand. Proust received it shortly afterwards and immediately asked him to "write it out again, on 0.60 paper": see his letter to Reynaldo Hahn [shortly after 24 October 1914] (CP 02830). [FP]
- ↑ Translation notes:
- ↑ Contributors: Yorktaylors.