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that this imbecile [Cottard] was a great physician”: II 97. Bergotte’s views on the sort of doctor needed by an artist: 197–99. M’s grandmother’s illness—rival prescriptions of Cottard and du Boulbon: III 404–16; Professor E————’s diagnosis: 426–31 (cf. IV 55–57); Cottard has “something of the greatness of a general” when deciding on a course of treatment: 438; the specialist X————, nose expert: 441–42; Professor Dieulafoy: 466–67. Medicine is “a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners”: 405. “To believe in medicine would be the height of folly, if not to believe in it were not a greater folly still”: 405. Doctors create illness by making patients believe they are ill (du Boulbon): 410–11. “A great part of what doctors know is taught them by the sick”: 411–12. Du Boulbon on nervous disorders: 410–16. “Doctors, like stockbrokers, employ the first person singular”: 559 (cf. IV 405). Innumerable mistakes of doctors; “medicine is not an exact science;” “medicine has made some slight advance in knowledge since Molière’s day, but none in its vocabulary”: IV 55–57. Cottard and his rivals at Balbec: 264–66. Toxic actions “a perilous innovation in medicine”: 265. Medicine “busies itself with changing the sense of verbs and pronouns”: 405. Cottard on sleeping draughts and on the digestion: 489–91. Medicine has developed the art of prolonging illnesses, but cannot cure the illnesses it creates: V 238. Bergotte and his doctors: 241–43.

MEMORY. The body’s memory more enduring than that of the mind: I 7–10 (cf. VI 352). Voluntary memory preserves nothing of the past itself: 59. The madeleine; taste and smell alone bear “the vast structure of recollection”: 60–64 (cf. VI 353. The three strata of memory: 262–64. The “terrible re-creative power” of memory: 523. A mistake to compare the images stored in one’s memory with reality: 606. Role of memory in our gradual assimilation of a new piece of music: II 140–42. Memory presents things to us in reverse: 208. Memory’s conflicting photographs: 621–22, 642 (cf. 678; V 644–45). Process of recapturing a line of verse: III 41–42 (cf. IV 521–23). Resurrection of the soul may be conceived as a phenomenon of memory: 111. Sleep and memory: 115–16 (cf. IV 521–23; V 154). Influence of the atmosphere in stimulating memory: 187 (cf. V 23, 645–62). Process of recapturing a name; advantages of an imperfect memory: IV 67–70. Arbitrariness of the images selected by memory: 205–6. M’s “complete and involuntary recollection” of his grandmother; “with the perturbations of memory are linked the intermittencies of the heart;” restoration of the self that experienced the resuscitated sensations: 210–12. Soporifics and memory: 520–23. Poor memories of men and women of action: V 40–41. Resuscitation of memory after the amnesia of sleep; “the goddess Mnemotechnia”: 154–57. Memory “a void from which at odd moments a chance resemblance enables one to resuscitate dead recollections”: 188. Microscope of the disinterested memory more powerful and less fragile than that of the heart: 233. “Translucent alabaster of our memories”: 379–81. Process of unravelling Albertine’s interrupted sentence: 454–58. Memory a sort of pharmacy or laboratory in which we find “a little of everything”: 526 (cf. 701–2). Memories of Albertine: 644–72 passim, 731–34; fortuitous memories more potent than deliberate ones: 732–33; “memory has no power of invention”: 748; the cruelty of memory: 753–54; “our legs and our arms are full of torpid memories”: VI 354. Apotheosis of involuntary memory; three analogous sensations (cf. I 60–64) and their significance: 256–74; examples from literature: 334–35. Vagaries in our memories of people; “the memories which two people preserve of each other, even in love, are not the same”: 406, 412–15, 419–21. Mutability of people and fixity of memory; “if our life is vagabond our memory is sedentary”: 438–43.

MONOCLES. Swann’s monocle, which delights Odette: I 348–49, and which he removes “like an importunate, worrying thought”: 493. Variety of monocles at Mme de Saint-Euverte