The Doctor's Opinion, pp. xxv-xxxii
Dr. Silkworth: 'We believe... that the action of alcohol on these chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an allergy.'
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From Alcoholics Anonymous — 1955 Second Edition by Wilson, Bill & Smith, Dr. Bob
The Big Book frames alcoholism as an illness combining a physical allergy with a mental obsession—a threefold malady of body, mind, and spirit.
Chapter 2: There Is a Solution, p. 18
We are equally positive that once he takes any alcohol whatever into his system, something happens... It is a manifestation of an allergy...Read in Books4Free →
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