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Extensions of Remarks 16843 Extensions of Remarks June 25, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16843 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS KEYNOTE SPEECH OF CHARLES lungs, free of braces and free of crippling­ function; it represents one of the most L. MASSEY, PRESIDENT, THE in one-tenth the time required to wipe out exhilarating challenges to be met in the last MARCH OF DIMES BIRTH DE­ smallpox-is testimony to our people's con­ decades of this century. FECTS FOUNDATION scious investment of themselves to insure That's because we give the word "healing" their children's future health. a special definition with extra dimensions. And it is true to this unique heritage that Not just treating and curing birth defects in HON. RICHARD L. OTTINGER March of Dimes volunteers are still laboring the present tense, but preventing birth de­ OF NEW YORK not for their own health but for the health fects in the future tense. And not just con­ of future generations. Tomorrow and the cern for the human body and its organs, but IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES following days, physicians and scientists, concern for individual human beings in the Wednesday, June 25, 1980 nurses and nutritionists, educators and lay total context of their environment. persons sitting among you tonight will star The Greek physician, Hippocrates-the e Mr. OTTINGER. Mr. Speaker, I in a multi-media production, playing the father of medicine-said that "healing is a would like to bring to the attention of role of themselves as they demonstrate the matter of time but it sometimes is also a my colleagues the speech given earlier forces they have fashioned in pursuing the matter of opportunity." this month by Charles L. Massey, prevention of birth defects. Because, on this Yes, healing is a matter of time. We know, president of the March of Dimes Birth 25th Anniversary of the Salk vaccine we in our fight against birth defects, that we Defects Foundation, to the Sixth Na­ celebrate more than our remarkable victory cannot turn ahead the clock. We cannot in­ over polio. We celebrate our progress in the stantly eradicate ignorance or apathy. We tional Volunteer Leadership Confer­ war against birth defects that is in many ence of the March of Dimes. cannot immediately reverse the genetic ways, even more remarkable. faults which have been compounded I am proud to note that this organi­ Birth defects. They weren't even called through the centuries. And we cannot be zation, whose national headquarters is birth defects when we launched our attack given instant knowledge about many of the in White Plains, N.Y., has just cele­ more than two decades ago. In fact, they causes of birth defects. So, reluctantly, we brated the 25th anniversary of the were not even recognized as a separate and must recognize the need for time .in the Salk vaccine against polio and is press­ distinct area of medical and scientific con­ process of healing. In all our endeavors-re­ ing on in the war against birth defects. cern. There was very little coordination of search, education, community awareness­ As Mr. Massey stressed in his speech research or exchange of information when we have learned that we must be patient in to these key volunteers, the cure for we moved into this uncharted area. waiting for our efforts to have effect. Since that shaky beginning we have And yes, healing is a matter of opportuni­ this problem lies in the interrelation­ learned some grim facts about our new ty. But we don't have to wait for opportuni­ ship of so many of the causes of birth enemy. We have learned that the tiny ty-the opportunity to prevent those birth defects-biological, physical, familial, infant we saw in the intensive care nursery defects which are clearly preventable now. educational, cultural, and social. could be affected by one or any number of In our basic research programs, for in­ Through their many thousands of vol­ defects from a list of more than a thousand. stance, we are continuing our quest for new unteers working at the community It may have inherited defective genes from knowledge-because we don't know nearly level, the March of Dimes is endeavor­ its parents-or it may have suffered damage as much as we need to know. Yet we do ing to insure that every newborn child during its fetal development-its mother know a lot that hasn't been applied and we may have been impoverished, malnourished, must seize every opportunity to use our in this country has a healthy and pro­ or an alcoholic. The possible causes are knowledge wherever and whenever it is ap­ ductive start in life. almost endless and that is why our war propriate. That is why-as you will see later The text of Mr. Massey's remarks must be waged on many fronts. And that is in this conference-we support not just follow: why such a wide diversity and multiplicity basic research, but clinical, social, behavior­ On this 25th Anniversary, in this state of the projects, programs and pursuits are al and environmental research. And that is that will always be identified with the an­ being handled simultaneously by the March why we educate, motivate, and organize nouncement of the Salk vaccine, I am of Dimes-biomedical research, maternal communities to be concerned about the prompted to add a footnote to the polio vac­ and infant care, professional education, quality of maternal and newborn health. cine field trials-an epilogue, if you will, to public education, and all the rest. And, in case some of you are still wondering, the stirring evocation of the prevention of What I have just mentioned may seem that is why we try to inform teenagers polio which you have just witnessed-a foot­ like just a clever March of Dimes juggling about proper nutrition as well as proper note which will also serve as prologue to the act-just a way to distribute our resources esteem for themselves and for their future unfolding of the prevention of birth defects and keep everybody happy. But it repre­ children. you will witness in the next days. sents much more than that. One reason we In the 1940's we served a healing function The vaccine field trials of 1954, the most are able to deal with such a variety of when we put polio patients in iron lungs and massive in the history of human health, and things at the same time and do it successful­ worked to rehabilitate damaged bodies. But the precedent-setting validation at Ann ly is that everything we do is focused on one in the 1950's we served a more valuable Arbor in 1955, altered forever both the central objective-the prevention and ame­ healing function when we produced the vac­ design and the application of preventive lioration of birth defects. The relentless cines that rendered the iron lung obsolete. medicine. In mounting the field trials the pursuit of that objective provides an under­ And then in the 1960's we borrowed from March of Dimes mobilized the public health lying unity, an implicit theme that runs the experience of the early polio years and forces and their colleagues in medicine's pri­ through-and holds together-and provides sought to heal the consequences of birth de­ vate sector; the schools-public, private and a rationale for everything we do. And, start­ fects-to find therapies and cures. 'But at parochial; the PTA-ers and the Catholic ing tomorrow morning, you will see and the start of the 1970's we borrowed from Home and School-ers; the media that cov­ hear how all of our programs add up to a the experience of the later polio years, and ered with reverent commitment; nearly two total attack on the problem of birth defects it became our primary preference to prevent million Polio Pioneers-aged six, seven and in all of its dimensions. birth defects in every possible way. eight-who knew even at their young ages Tonight, however, I would like to empha­ W_e acknowledge, of course, that healing that they were making history, and just size another reason for our success-a in this preventive sense is not a March of plain people who gave their time and their reason that relates to the way we do busi­ Dimes exclusive. Biomedical scientists and dimes many times over. In all, three million ness. Tonight I want to emphasize the physicians have long recognized that pre­ volunteers-think of it-all unpaid, but not power of the March of Dimes as a healing ventive health is an important aspect of the unsung. And millions more from across the force in our society. You might even say medical enterprise. But the March of Dimes nation clamoring to be included. that healing is our business. All our activi­ has expanded the definition still further. Even then, the crucible was the communi­ ties, from vaccinating to superwalking, from One of our major objectives, for instance, ty-the caring community-217 communi­ the most basic kind of laboratory research has been to bring together the physician, ties in 44 states-where a giant leap of faith to the most down to earth, face to face the patient, the scientific researcher and was forged into scientific fact. And the sub­ caring-all are directed toward healing. the fund raising public into a working part­ sequent eradication of polio-free of iron Healing, to us, is an active not a passive nership so they will recognize and appreci- e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor.
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