Credits

THIQ writings within this book, concerning alcohol and drugs, are gleaned primarily from the findings of Research Scientist Doctor Virginia Davis of the Metabolic Research Laboratory, Veterans Administration Hospital, Department of BioChemistry, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Texas, during the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. THIQ findings were first published in Science Magazine, Volume 167, February 13, 1970, of which this author has acquired copies. It was during the 1970’s that I was first briefed concerning the discovery of THIQ.

Information has also come from the American Journal of Psychiatry, Volume 107 1949 concerning the findings of Medical Doctor William D Silkworth, Chief Physician of the Charles B Towns Hospital, New York City. Towns Hospital was one of America’s first successful treatment facilities. It was under the guidance of Doctor Silkworth that the cofounder of Americans first and now largest self help organization acquired his introduction to the chemical effects of alcohol, being that certain body chemistry produces the manifestation of an allergy to alcohol. The theories of Doctor Silkworth fit live a glove the proofs of Doctor Virginia Davis. Doctor Silkworth’s teaching's highlighted that alcoholics have an allergy of the body coupled to an obsession of the mind. With Doctor Silkworth it was theory. With Doctor Virginia Davis it was provable based on her experiments with THIQ injections into rats and monkies. This author is quite certain Doctor Virginia Davis had never heard of Doctor Silkworth.