European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 21, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Arthur Guyto medical Miracle continued from Page 13 China where she spent five years teaching physics. Years later when a troubled Douglas Guyton. No. 7. Look a semester Oil from College to figure out what to do with his life he tried to explain his dilemma to his lather. He could t understand Why i was t interested in school Why i did t know what to do. Why i was moping around trying to Douglas says. Finally i said something Aboul How hard it was being the son of Guyton. How people always said. I knew your Brothers and Sisters they were Brilliant. You must be Brilliant too i said everyone expects Way Loo much of you. He told me it s not so much a matter of what you be been Given As it is what you do with what you be been Given. He said i was a son of Guyton. Too in time people will look past thai " Arthur Guyton spoke from experience. No certificates awards or diplomas hang Over the Metal desk in his office a sparse Book jammed cubbyhole in which a pair of Ripe bananas Are the Only ornaments. Nonetheless his discoveries in the lab unravelling the Complex relationship Between heart function and blood flow and pinpointing the crucial role of the kidneys in controlling blood pressure have earned him two honorary degrees and 48 entries in the awards Section of his curriculum Vitae including the top research prize from the american heart association. You can find him in american men of who s who in the South who s who in american education who s who in America and who s who in the his descriptions of the relationships Between blood veins heart and kidneys have resulted in the world s largest mathematical Model of the circulatory system consisting of More than 400 equations. Fed into a computer the data serve As an increasingly accurate predictor of which Laboratory experiments will prove the most useful. Research has worked out jus i Fine for Arthur Guyton whose assessment is As spare As his office we be hit on a few says Robert no 2 it was t until i went to medical school that i really was Able to appreciate what he had done. We knew that he was widely respected by the Community his Peers and his family but up until then it was hard to understand the fact that he was internationally equally puzzling to his children were the references to Arthur Guylon having overcome a great Handicap despite the omnipresent wheelchair and crutches it was always a Surprise to us whenever anyone suggested our father was Robert says. As far As we were concerned he was once shortly alter the family had left warm Springs Lor Oxford where Guylon resumed his career As a physiology professor Ruth Guylon returned Home from shopping and was met at the door by an exultant toddler. Mommy guess what cried 4-year-old David. Daddy walked All the Way into town today with Only me to fall on in the Early Days it was hard for Arthur to have to patiently direct others to do that which he once could do so Well says Ruth. It took incredible patience and acceptance. But he s very much of a Ole miss moved its two year medical school from Oxford to Jackson in 1955, expanding it to a four year degree granting program. The Guy tons now a family of eight had to move too. Where to put them All Arthur Guyton a realist got out his sketch pad. Borrowed a few books on architecture and went to work. He did the designing. The kids did the building. Their father was t without some experience. While recuperating at warm Springs Guyton had designed the prototype of the motorized wheelchair As Well As a special hoist and walking Brace for polio patients. His inventions which he shared freely with the world. Earned him a presidential citation in 1956, the same year he was named one of the 10 outstanding Young men in America. The one level Concrete Block House on Meadow Road with its six bedrooms and 3 a Baths Louvere windows and no Steps measures 127 feet from family room to workshop. It took two years to build and when it was finished it looked a Little naked plunked out there in the Middle of 15 acres of Meadow and Pines. So the kids added a 50-foot swimming Pool and Tennis courts. More and More the workshop became the setting for family activities. When something was broken daddy s theory was take it apart see How it works then figure out How to fix it. That s How he taught me to approach things Douglas says. I remember waking up on a saturday and having daddy say you re going to have to replace the clutch on the tractor today i was barely big enough to pull off the Chain. I complained a lot but the truth is i liked it. Ii was a Way of dealing with problems that i Hope i la be Able to teach my own Arthur Guylon in the Early Days of television once built himself a to set just to see How it worked says his Wile. One wonders How much togetherness can a family stand More if its members decide to build a factory to manufacture medical instruments of their own design. Daddy was always gelling us involved in his says John. He always had a fun idea he wanted to try and he invariably got us to work on it. One of the key things he did was to Start us on projects at an age that was appropriate for kids to be learning and getting excited about things. He started me on electronics when i was in fifth Grade. It was probably a Little earlier than most people would think of but he taught us that As children we could perform jobs often thought of As adult when Federal licensing requirements made medical instruments too costly for a family business the Oxford instrument co. Folded. It was t the end of the Guy tons collaboration however. They built boats. Three fibreglass sailboats with Cabins. One Motorboat. Arthur Guyton had experience there too he had built his own boat while at Harvard but when he was no longer Able to sail it he sold it to a Friend Back at Oxford named William Faulkner. Yes that William Faulkner. He and Guyton played chess and drank lemonade together. Well i drank lemonade Guyton says. I could t say what was in his Faulkner beat the pants off him nonetheless in All but their final game. By that time says his partner i d Learned a thing or two about meanwhile Back at Meadow Road the bedrooms continued to fill up with babies even As the Back Yard blossomed with boats. Ruth Guyton s four boys two girls and four boys arrived Over 23 years. That your Gran baby asked an endless succession of store clerks whenever she took Little Greg the youngest Guylon out shopping. By then mrs. Guyton who had graduated Phi Beta Kappa and whose father had been Dean of the Yale University divinity school had taken to introducing herself at various medical societies her husband presided Over As a specialist in family an Apt description. From Ruth Guyton s memory Book you folks belong to holy family Church asked the new Milkman confident As he rapidly counted Heads that he d just added a family of catholics to his route. Actually we re from a Well meaning stranger but i thought surely everyone knew Aboul birth control we do. We just happen to like Here s Ruth Guyton at the supermarket pulling one cart and pushing another both loaded with a half dozen half Gallons of milk and eight to 10 loaves of bread among other Staples. Somebody s having a party says the Check out clerk. Of no Ruth replies airily. We just live this Here she is at the furniture store searching Tor a dining room table to seat 12. Of the Salesman Fini gets the idea after she rejects All his tables for eight you want a banquet table it pleases the Mother of to remember this As she wipes the plastic Tablecloth and dishes out the Stew. Here s the Wellesley girl and her husband taking the family for a stroll. Hero s the neighbor with the screeching brakes pulling up alongside the processional of bicycles tricycles roller skates and strollers. Say Arthur he Bellows across a Dusty expanse of Highway. All those yours such recollections have provided the grist for numerous essays by mrs. Guyton. A two time Winner the Mississippi arts festival annual essay contest. 1 also have made her a sought after speaker at women seminars throughout Mississippi. Ruth Guylon on motherhood living in the South i was great. I could never have stuffed 10 Little bodies into on Economy nothing Ever got thrown out in Thia House. It just changed on discipline. We were not strict. We had guides and limits but with that Many you can t have too a rules or you drive yourself which begs the question How do you punish your children from the confines of a wheelchair s style of punishment usually took the Forf mental isolation says his life. " you re restricted he d say meaning the offender would not be allowed speak for five minutes or so. There s no worse punishment for a child in a big family than that Here s Robert on the subject of being one of 10 never fell deprived in any Way. I never fell that i Wasj getting enough j there were times though when Douglas Felt a we miffed or jealous that daddy seemed to be lost in Hie Page 14 the stars and stripes the Huyton Pate with their 10 sunday
