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In Memoriam

Gus J. Prosch, Jr., M.D.

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

Gus J. Prosch, Jr., M.D.

November 17, 1930 to June 7, 2005

Guntersville, Alabama Cemetary

It was sometime in 1981 when I received a most peculiar

telephone call. A "Dr. Prosch" was on the phone, and he wanted to

talk to me about driving up from Birmingham, AL to visit me at my

home and office in Franklin, TN.

I can remember in the early 1940's when our family doctor, Dr.

Smiley, sat beside my mother's bedside at our home, waiting for

signs of recovery from pneumonia during a winter time in Mason

City, Iowa. Scratching my head very hard, I could only remember

one other time when a pediatrician visited our home in Mobile,

Alabama to administer to one of my sick children. Since then, such

visits had been quite sparse.

Dr. Prosch had just visited Jack M. Blount, Jr., M.D. in Phila-

delphia, MS where he'd sat in while Dr. Blount administered Prof.

Roger Wyburn-Mason's new rheumatoid disease treatment to pa-

tients, eventually treating more than 17,000.

Using the same treatment, Dr. Blount also had treated and

cured Dr. Prosch of a "rheumatoid" back that had plagued him for

many years.

Sometime during Prosch's visit with Blount, Dr. Blount men-

tioned that he'd by mail provided me with prescriptions for rheu-

matoid arthritis, and that I'd gotten well in six weeks.

Dr. Prosch's mission, at this time, was to determine for himself

the truth of Dr. Blount's assertions about the Wyburn-Mason pro-

tocol. Although Dr. Prosch had been cured himself, and had talked

to a number of happy former arthritics, he'd not had the opportu-

nity to sit down and question and observe anyone in detail.

Was it worth his time and six hour roundtrip drive?

Apparently Dr. Prosch thought it was, for that's the purpose

for the telephone call, and the request to visit!

At that time my office was a converted tractor barn, rugged on

the outside but quite comfortable inside. Gus -- as I and many of his

friends called him -- faced one another easily, but before he ques-

tioned about my rheumatoid arthritis symptoms and how they'd

disappeared, he kindly took the time to explain about his own

background. I was most impressed with his candor and honesty.

One of his specialties was in helping patients to lose weight.

Keep in mind that this was not always an "honorable" profession,

as many really "reputable" doctors facetiously called him "The Fat

Doctor." Now, of course, it's a "reputable" subject not only because

Americans are seriously showing the nature of their food intake,

but also because there's a great deal of medical money to be made

talking folks into eating less and exercising more!

(His explanation of the difference between brown fat and white

fat, and the central role of brown fat in being able to burn up white

fat is seldom seen in diet reduction plans! To create brown fat, of

course, requires essential fatty acid intake.)

It was only later that I understood the significance of the

specific characteristics he looked for in me -- increasing number of

joint pains, swollen and inflammed and painful joints, depression,

et. al.

Apparently Dr. Prosch was convinced of the efficacy of the

treatment, and so he added the Wyburn-Mason/Blount rheumatoid

disease protocol to his lexicon of treatments which helped thou-

sands more through his clinic.

Of the many health professionals I've met since then, Gus

stood out on two counts: (1) always ready to explore a new reput-

edly successful therapy, no matter how crazy -- to me -- the therapy

appeared, and (2) always willing to objectively observe and drop

the treatment if it didn't provide good results.

So many alternative/complementary doctors -- indeed, every

form of doctor -- get stuck on one modality, and will defend it

forevermore even though better means may be at hand.

Together Gus Prosch, Jack Blount, Roger Wyburn-Mason,

Dr. Paul Pybus and myself started The Roger Wyburn-Mason &

Jack M. Blount Foundation for the Eradication of Rheumatoid Dis-

ease, Inc., AKA's The Rheumatoid Disease Foundation and The

Arthritis Trust of America.

Except for Wyburn-Mason and Pybus who lived in England

and South Africa, respectively, we remaining three appeared before

a potential fundraiser in North Carolina to encourage them to fi-

nance through direct mail solicitation our new non-profit, charitable

research foundation. Our efforts were successful, and so Dr. Prosch

was one of those responsible for helping this foundation get the

good message out to folks that Rheumatoid Disease is curable.

In addition to research work in South Africa performed by

Pybus and Davies, several times Dr. Paul Pybus came here at his

own expense from South Africa to help us with our funded scien-

tific studies.

He and Gus also worked on the development of

Intraneural Injections, a treatment that gave Gus the reputation of

being "The Needle Man"

in addition to being "The Fat Doctor."

It was early discovered that the Wyburn-Mason/Blount treat-

ment for rheumatoid diseases, coupled with the Wyburn-Mason/

Pybus/Prosch techniques of Intraneural Injections made for a far

faster recovery.

Although my recovery from Rheumatoid Arthritis was clear -

- absence of inflammation, swelling, depression, and the increasing

number of painful joints -- I still had enduring painful joints. Dr.