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In Memoriam

Robert Bingham, M.D.

Lafayette, Colorado, July 21, 1910

Desert Hot Springs,California,

May 1, 1994

Ashes scattered at sea

Perry A.Chapdelaine,Sr.

The Roger Wyburn-Mason and Jack M. Blount Foundation for the

Eradication of Rheumatoid Disease

aka The Arthritis Trust of America

7376 Walker Road, Fairview, Tn 37062

Also published with permission in Townsend Letter for Doctors, 911

Tyler Street, Port Towsend, WA 98368-6541, November 1994.

Robert Bingham, M.D.

As one of the founders of The Roger Wyburn-Mason and Jack

M. Blount Foundation for the Eradication of Rheumatoid Disease

(aka The Rheumatoid Disease Foundation, aka The Arthritis Trust of

America) Robert Bingham was an inspired and dedicated contribu-

tor. He was a man of vision, a searcher for truth!

Robert Bingham contributed to many causes, among which

were two closest to his heart: crippled children and arthritis victims.

When polio no longer created vast numbers of pathetically crippled

children, Robert Bingham switched to arthritis, and his life-long

devotion to the cause of the arthritic victim began.

During travels to England, Dr. Bingham met Professor Roger

Wyburn-Mason, M.D., Ph.D., a medical school professor and re-

searcher who, although initially specializing in diseases of the nerves,

now claimed to have discovered the source and causation of crip-

pling Rheumatoid Arthritis.

Dr. Bingham wrote about Wyburn-Mason's claim and it was

published in Modern Medicine (Feb. 15, 1976, pp.38-47) as "Rheu-

matoid Disease: Has One Investigator Found Its Cause and Its

Cure?" [and also in Orthopedic Review.]

Philadelphia, Mississippi physician, Jack M.Blount, M.D.,

having been crippled from Rheumatoid Arthritis since early youth,

and, still suffering from the disease, read Bingham's article, and tried

Roger Wyburn-Mason's treatment, after discovering a chemical re-

lated to Wyburn-Mason's Clotrimazole which was unavailable to Dr.

Blount; i.e., Metronidazole.

Blount cured himself, many of his patients, and this author, of

crippling Rheumatoid Arthritis. Thus, the story that began with a

professor in England [who was eventually ostracized from a society

that had embraced him for his two discoveries of nerve diseases

(named after Wyburn-Mason)] passed through the open-minded

eyes and ears of Robert Bingham, M.D., to the long-time arthritic

Jack M. Blount, M.D. and on to this writer, and thousands of others

who have also been cured.

Dr. Bingham wrote numerous articles describing Roger Wyburn-

Mason's treatment, and tried his best to spread truth where he could.

In a trip to Sydney, Australia attending the 16th International Con-

gress of Rheumatology, (19th-25th May 1985) The Rheumatoid

Disease Foundation (aka The Arthritis Trust of America) was repre-

sented by Robert Bingham, M.D. who contributed a paper on the

"Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis by the Use of Anti-Malarial and

Anti-Protozoal Drugs." He displayed for two days a poster on the

same subject and the findings of Dr. Roger Wyburn-Mason. He gave

over 400 Rheumatoid Disease Foundation folders to the delegates

telling them of the work of the Foundation, and also gave them a card

upon which to request further information and literature.

An attempt was made to stop Dr. Bingham from distributing the

Rheumatoid Disease Foundation folder on a complaint from an

"undisclosed doctor from England." This was the subject of an apol-

ogy when it appeared that an international incident might develop if

the action of the local committee chairman was disclosed to the local

press and world news services covering the meeting. Dr. Bingham

wrote, "As usual the Congress was dominated by the large multi-

national drug companies, each anxious to convert the physicians to

the use of their own brands of NSAIDS, the non-steroidal, anti-

inflammatory drugs, many of which are not as yet available in the

United States. However, in the scientific sessions, none was supe-

rior to enteric or time-release aspirin in the effect on pain and stiff-

ness of arthritis, except perhaps in their one-a-day or two-a-day

convenience of administration.

"Methotrexate seemed to be gaining in usage by the

rheumatologists over gold and penicillamine in spite of its known

toxic effects and complications.

"Only our presentations on the amoebic etiology of rheumatoid

disease offered any 'new' information on the causes of arthritis. . . .

The 'medical world' now knows of the existence of the new Interna-

tional Rheumatoid Disease Foundation."

In February of 1983 Dr. Bingham attended the XI Congreso

Mexicano de Reumatologia in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, where he

presented a paper in the use of Roger Wyburn-Mason's treatment for

Rheumatoid Arthritis. On his return home he was saddened to learn

that Jack M. Blount, M.D. had been entrapped by Mississippi phy-

sicians who had not investigated the new treatment that was bringing

patients to Dr. Blount's door by the thousands. Once again Bob

Bingham set out to remedy the pains of the world, for he wrote on

March 15, 1983 to the Mississippi State Board of Medical Licen-

sure,

"Dear Fellow Physicians:

"On my return from Mexico this week I first learned of the

difficulties Dr. Blount is having in regards to his medical license.