The Mississippi enterprise., 1963-02-02
Hove You Given To Morch OF Dimes

What a parent do if his child suffers from
juvenile rheumatoid arthritis?
How can physician combat the mental and social
soaring which often agonzing byproducts of this
disease? AtT
work of slim, brown-haired kindly physician
she deals with her young patients with parents and
with the general public |#E
The physician is DR.. Jane Borgess. director of the
March of Dimes-financed Arthrits Special Treatment
Center at the Home for Crippled Children in Pittsburgh
Pa. -s
This is one of rapidly expanding nationwide net
work of special study and treatment centers which
being supported by The National Foundation-March of
Dimes to bring the best most modern medical to
victims of arthritis, birth defects and polio
DR.. Borges findings available to other physicians
throughout the country. Disseminating knowledge
is proved worthwhile is important part
of The National Foundations fight against arthritis.
The heart of the success of DR.. Borges' treatment
of children is summed up in her words:
"We study the child, not the laboratory report"
By this, Dr. Borges that the i C a
symptoms of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis quite
similar for each chd-high fever swollen and aching
Joints raSh anenia and involvement of body organs
But the emotional reaction to these symptoms usually
differs from child to child
For instance one sixyear-old girl after four years
of operations and other treatment unable to adjust
to school and playnates because of intermittent pain
and the awareness that she the only youngster in
her class wearing a brace
Her parents arranged, through the Allegheny Coun-
ty Chapter of The National Foundation to admit her
to DR.. BorgeS center.
Here, the child was placed among other youngsters
with similar problems and exposed to the physical and
social therapies of Dr. Borges' program Six months
later she went back khome "a different child obedient
getting along happily with brothers, sisters and
playmates," according to her grateful mother
DR.. Borges explains her with this child:
"By treating the emotional and environmental pro-
blems associated with juvenile rheumatoid arhrtis not
just the physical ones, often able to change
attitudes of despair to of cheerfulness and hope
Dr. Borges points out that she is achieving medi-
cal miracle: .e@
"The laboratory reports these children after
have worked with them for time, still the
The disease still there" There is at present
preventive for Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis The
best that physicians do is to relieve pain and try
to prevent deformy of the childS body -eFyrtv
But this important change has taken place, accord
ing to the woman doctor:
'The individual is not the person in
the beginning"
Now the child has been helped out of his shell of
pain and loneliness at the time that his medical
needs have been dealt with Now the child knows that
there many other people like him in the world
that he not different Now the child stop being
a querulous invalid, and concentrate being in
quisitive and perhaps mischevous youngser just like
any other.
If you know child with juvenile rheumatod
arhr ask his parents to contact their county chapter
of The National Foundation-March of Dimes And if
you would like to help establish centers like Dr.
Borgess. contribute to the 25th Anniversary March of
Dimes.