CP 05639/en
Maurice Bize to Marcel Proust 4 November 1914
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I the undersigned Doctor of Medicine certify that Monsieur Proust Marcel suffers from very violent, daily asthmatic attacks, along with generalized emphysema. These circumstances have resulted in cardial dilation. Additionally symptoms of renal failure have necessitated a very restricted lacto-vegetarian diet.
For many years Monsieur Proust has been bedridden and in a state of such pronounced physical decline that it would be impossible for him to appear before a Medical Board.
Albi 4 November 1914[1].
Dr Bize
Dr Bize 60 avenue La Bourdonnais currently physician with 35e Territorial (Albi)
Examined for material certification of the signature of M. Doctor Bize affixed above, PARIS, 1 December 1914, The Commissioner of Police[2] ×××
Notes
- ↑ Second certificate from Dr Bize. The first certificate (CP 05638) being written out on ordinary notepaper, Proust asked him to write him out a new certificate "on 0.60 paper" (as he wrote to Reynaldo Hahn in his letter of [shortly after 24 October 1914] (CP 02830), which is to say stamped paper reserved for official documents. We have established the text from the original document; an allograph copy (in Céleste Albaret's handwriting) exists in the same collection. [FP]
- ↑ Stamp of the Police Commission, completed by hand. [FP]
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