Slips and Human Nature

This article is reprinted from the January, 1947, issue of The Grapevine, because it seems as timely and useful now as it was then. The late Dr. Silkworth was for many years medical chief at Towns Hospital and Knickerbocker Hospital in New York City, where he treated more than 40,000 alcoholics, including Bill W. in the last stages of the co-founder's active alcoholism. Some of the great contributions to AA made by "the little doctor who loved drunks" are described in the books "Alcoholics Anonymous" and "AA Comes of Age."