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	AA History - The Little Doctor Who Loved Drunks
		Silkworth had his professional reputation to lose, and nothing whatever to gain, by permitting and encouraging this unheard-of procedure of one God-bitten drunk trying to pass on his strange story of a light and a vision to other alcoholics - most of whom at that time received it with lively hostility or magnificent indifference.
		Silkworth from the beginning threw all of his weight as a doctor, a neurologist, a specialist in alcoholism, into aiding the progress of this mongrel and highly unpedigreed society in every possible way.
		Silkworth’s was a great contribution to the establishment and development of the alcoholic treatment center at Knickerbocker Hospital in New York.
	www.barefootsworld.net /aasilkyloveddrunks.html (2658 words)

	William Duncan Silkworth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Duncan Silkworth, M.D., (1873?-1951) was an American medical doctor and specialist in the treatment of alcoholism.
		He was Director of the Charles B. Towns Hospital for Drug and Alcohol Addictions in New York City in the 1930s, during which time Bill Wilson, a future co-founder of the mutual-help movement Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.), was admitted on three separate occasions for alcoholism.
		Silkworth had a profound influence on Wilson and encouraged him to realize that alcoholism was more than just an issue of moral weakness.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Duncan_Silkworth (165 words)

	Alcoholics Anonymous (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		One was Bill Wilson (William Griffith Wilson), a New York stockbroker; the other was Dr Bob Smith (Robert Holbrook Smith), a medical doctor and surgeon from Akron, Ohio.
		Firstly he had learned from a New York alcoholism specialist, Dr William Duncan Silkworth, that alcoholism was not simply a moral weakness.
		Silkworth told Wilson, during one of Wilson's admissions to his drying-out clinic, that alcoholism had a pathological disease-like character.
	www.icyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/a/al/alcoholics_anonymous.html (698 words)

	Amazon.ca: Silkworth: The Little Doctor Who Loved Drunks: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		In the 1930s, this statement by Dr. William Duncan Silkworth flew in the face of conventional wisdom that alcoholism was a moral failing.
		Silkworth was a pioneer in the treatment of alcoholism in the early 1930's.
		It was Dr. Silkworth who took the enormous gamble of allowing one of his recovered alcoholic patients, Bill Wilson, to act as a lay therapist on the alcoholism ward during the first few weeks of his sobriety.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1568387946 (506 words)

	Bill W. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Griffith Wilson (26 November 1895-24 January 1971) (commonly known as Bill Wilson or Bill W.), was a co-founder of the mutual-help group Alcoholics Anonymous.
		Bill's wife, Lois Wilson became the founder of Al-Anon, a group dedicated to helping the friends and relatives of alcoholics.
		William G. Wilson's autobiography in AA's 'Big Book, copyright to First Edition expired
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Griffith_Wilson (1143 words)

	AA Archives Web Facts
		William Duncan Silkworth MD (age 78) “the little doctor who loved drunks” and “medical saint” died of a heart attack at his home at 45 W 81st St, NYC.
		William Duncan (Silky) Silkworth was born in Brooklyn, NY to Isabelle Duncan and William Silkworth Sr.
		William Duncan Silkworth was hired as director of alcoholic treatment at the Knickerbocker Hospital in NYC.
	www.nnjaa.org /area44/archives-webfacts.htm (3358 words)

	William Duncan Silkworth: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		William griffith wilson (commonly known as bill wilson or "bill w."), was a co-founder of the self-help group alcoholics anonymous....
		William griffith wilson (commonly known as bill wilson or "bill w."), EHandler: no quick summary.
		Drug rehabilitation is an umbrella term for a variety of processes by which a person addicted to a drug stops using that drug....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/william_duncan_silkworth.htm (538 words)

	LearnThis.Info Encyclopedia articles beginning with 'Wi' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
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	encyclopedia.learnthis.info /w/wi/index.html (104 words)

	William Duncan Silkworth: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		William Duncan Silkworth, Exception Handler: No article summary found.
		Silkworth had a profound influence on Wilson and encouraged him to realize that alcoholism was more than just an issue of moral weakness, Exception Handler: No article summary found.
		William Griffith Wilson (William griffith wilson (commonly known as bill wilson or "bill w."), Exception Handler: No article summary found.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /ref/william_duncan_silkworth (586 words)

	ECHELON: NSA's Global Electronic Interception
		Duncan Campbell reports from the United States on the secret Anglo-American plan for a global electronic spy system for the 21st century capable of listening in to most of us most of the time
		Project SILKWORTH is, according to signals intelligence specialists, the code-name for long-range radio monitoring from Menwith Hill.
		Note: Duncan Campbell has generously provided additional US sources of information on electronic inteception which shall be offered on this site when available.
	duncan.gn.apc.org /echelon-dc.htm (2752 words)

	God and Alcoholism
		William D. Silkworth, M.D., and the Charles B. Towns Hospital may or may not have disagreed as to whether alcoholism could be cured.
		Charles B. Towns was the owner of Towns Hospital, where Bill Wilson had his "spiritual experience" while under the care of Towns’ medical director, Dr. William Silkworth.
		Silkworth, on the other hand, said, "clinically, we have no cure for chronic alcoholism.
	www.religion-online.org /showchapter.asp?title=3092&C=2619 (5441 words)

	Alcoholism Research Topic History Summary
		William Griffith Wilson, the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, was born November 26, 1895, in East Dorset, Vermont.
		When he was nine, his parents divorced, apparently because of his father’s drinking, and he was left in the care of his grandparents.
		On December 11, 1934, he admitted himself for the fourth time and was treated by a neurologist named William Duncan Silkworth.
	www.bookrags.com /researchtopics/alcoholism/sub19.html (392 words)

	silkworth - Around2.co.uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Silkworth Lodge is a States of Jersey Registered, well appointed and equipped 12 bedded residential...
		William Duncan Silkworth, in his "Doctor's Opinion," boldly postulated that alcoholism was an allergy of the body...
		Silkworth, a medical saint if ever there was one, came in to hear my trembling account of this phenomenon...
	www.around2.co.uk /directory/s/silkworth/readme.htm (1455 words)

	Alcoholics Anonymous Early History and Photographs Appendix 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Wilson House, East Dorset, VT. Birthplace of William Griffith Wilson, Co-Founder, Alcoholics Anonymous.
		It was here while under the care of Dr William Duncan Silkworth that Bill W had his life-changing spiritual experience.
		Dr William Duncan Silkworth (1873-1951), physician-in-chief, Towns Hospital.
	www.aadallas.org /nuphotos-app1.htm (263 words)

	Religious Roots: Bill Wilson Gets Religion (And Drugs) And Sees God
		Silkworth was not about to disillusion Bill by telling him that his grand vision of God was all just a drug trip.
		Silkworth had already, many months and another relapse earlier, told Lois Wilson that the end was near for Bill if he kept on drinking (and Bill kept on drinking anyway).
		Silkworth had concluded that Bill Wilson was a hopeless case.
	www.orange-papers.org /orange-rroot780.html (2413 words)

	Amazon.com: Silkworth: The Little Doctor Who Loved Drunks the Biography of William Duncan Silkworth, M.D.: Books: Dale ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Silkworth was a pioneer in the treatment of alcoholism in the early 1930's.
		It was one of Dr. Silkworth's patients who went on to form the basis of the most effective treatment of alcoholism today, Alcoholics Anonymous.
		It was Dr. Silkworth who took the enormous gamble of allowing one of his recovered alcoholic patients, Bill Wilson, to act as a lay therapist on the alcoholism ward during the first few weeks of his sobriety.
	www.amazon.com /Silkworth-Little-Doctor-Biography-William/dp/1568387946 (1336 words)

	William Duncan Silkworth - TheBestLinks.com - Alcoholics Anonymous, Alcoholism, Bill Wilson, William Griffith Wilson, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		William Duncan Silkworth - TheBestLinks.com - Alcoholics Anonymous, Alcoholism, Bill Wilson, William Griffith Wilson,...
		William Duncan Silkworth, Alcoholics Anonymous, Alcoholism, Bill Wilson...
		Writings, articles, letters and documents of Dr. William Duncan Silkworth (http://silkworth.net/silkworth/silkworth.html)
	www.thebestlinks.com /William_Duncan_Silkworth.html (153 words)

	William Duncan Silkworth in TutorGig Encyclopedia
		'William Duncan Silkworth', M.D., (1873?-1951) was an American medical doctor and specialist in the treatment of alcoholism.
		He was Director of the Charles B. Towns Hospital for Drug and Alcohol Addictions in New York City in the 1930s, during which time Bill Wilson, a future co-founder of the mutual-help movement Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.), was admitted on three separate occasions for alcoholism.
		Silkworth had a profound influence on Wilson and encouraged him to realize that alcoholism was more than just an issue of moral weakness.
	www.tutorgig.com /ed/William_Duncan_Silkworth (204 words)

	William Duncan Silkworth, M.D.
		William Duncan Silkworth, M.D. William Duncan Silkworth 1873-1951
		Glenwood Cemetery, in West Long Branch, New Jersey, is a mile and a half from the ocean (halfway between Eatontown, New Jersey, and the coast) and twenty-five miles due south across Raritan Bay from New York City.
		William Duncan Silkworth, M.D., the doctor in charge of the hospital, who liked Bill enormously and had been trying to get him sober for a long time, told him "Something tremendous has happened to you.
	www.hindsfoot.org /silky.html (341 words)

	AA Grapevine Current Issue
		Silkworth taught us how to till the fl soil of hopelessness, out of which every single spiritual awakening in our fellowship has since flowered.
		Charles B. Towns, the hospital's owner, into a great AA enthusiast and had encouraged him to loan $2,500 to start preparation of the book Alcoholics Anonymous--a sum, by the way, which later amounted to over $4,000.
		So when--twenty-three years after Dr. Silkworth had treated me for the last time--I saw and heard and felt the spirit that was abroad in that great AMA meeting, I thanked God for the doctors, one of the finest groups of friends that AA can ever have.
	www.aagrapevine.org /gv/bonus_article1.php (1004 words)

	Dr. William Duncan Silkworth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		William Duncan Silkworth has probably treated more alcoholics then any other physician in history.
		Silkworth authored the “Doctor’s Opinion” which appears in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous.
		Silkworth died of a heart attack at his home in 1938.
	www.archivesinternational.org /AI/Portraits/silkworth (47 words)

	William Griffith Wilson - TheBestLinks.com - Bill W, Addiction, Alcoholics Anonymous, Alcoholism, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		William Griffith Wilson - TheBestLinks.com - Bill W, Addiction, Alcoholics Anonymous, Alcoholism,...
		Bill W, William Griffith Wilson, Addiction, Alcoholics Anonymous, Alcoholism...
		William Griffith Wilson (commonly known as Bill Wilson or "Bill W."), was a cofounder of the self-help group Alcoholics Anonymous.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Bill_W.html (409 words)

	Dr. William Duncan Silkworth, 1873 - 1951
		Dr. William Duncan Silkworth died of a heart attack in his home in New York, Thursday morning, March 22.
		Many of us felt that his medical skill, great as that was, was not at all the full measure of his stature.
		Dr. Silkworth was something that it is difficult even to mention in these days.
	www.silkworth.net /silkworth/wdsilkworth.html (256 words)

	Dr. William Duncan Silkworth, M.D. -from which this site gets its name.
		William Duncan Silkworth, M.D. -from which this site gets its name.
		William Duncan Silkworth, M.D. An in depth look at the writings, articles, letters and documents of
		Dr. William Duncan Silkworth, M.D. -from which this web site, Silkworth.net, gets its name.
	www.silkworth.net /silkworth/silkworth.html (453 words)

	Big Book Sources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		William Duncan Silkworth, M.D. — the psychiatrist in charge of Towns Hospital in New York, who frequently treated Bill Wilson for alcoholism, seems to have fostered AA’s “allergy” theories about the so-called “disease” of alcoholism, and who wrote the Doctor’s Opinion contained in each edition of Bill’s Big Book.
		William James as one who had far more influence on Bill Wilson’s language, ideas, and theories than just that of a long-dead writer of a book on “varieties of religious experiences;” and
		William Silkworth as one who actually believed in divine healing through the power of Jesus Christ, as Dr. Norman Vincent Peale so clearly illustrated with a personal story in his title, The Positive Power of Jesus Christ.
	www.alchemyproject.net /Articles/bigbook.htm (4304 words)

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		William Duncan Silkworth is the author of the two letters in the “Doctor’s Opinion” in the Big Book “Alcoholics Anonymous” and is known as a friend to millions of alcoholics worldwide.
		Silkworth lived on Chelsea Avenue in Long Branch, attended Long Branch High School where he has been inducted in that school’s Hall of Fame, graduated from Princeton University, and lived for a while in Little Silver.
		Speakers: Barbara Silkworth (a family member) and Stan B. from the Sayreville Victories Group (sober date 9/30/59).
	www.eleventhstep.com /pdf_files/SilkworthFlyer.doc (690 words)

	Bible Study Notes > Resources > Articles (BibleStudyNotes.org)
		Many AAs know that William Duncan Silkworth, M.D., was the chief psychiatrist at Towns Hospital in New York and that he wrote the “Doctor’s Opinion” which precedes the A.A. basic text in Alcoholics Anonymous.
		Others have learned that Bill turned to Silkworth, his attending physician, to inquire about the conversion experience and whether he had gone crazy or not.
		Silkworth responded that “whatever it is, you had better hang on to it.”
	www.biblestudynotes.org /articles.php?go=dickb (573 words)

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