A while back I found an article in the NYT archives about a physician in NY City who was relieving spinal fluid pressure to cure alcoholism in 1942 I think. I tried to see if he had moved from Chicago, but I didn't find any evidence to suggest that. Since he wasn't Hank's Chicago doctor and I couldn't connect him to AA in any way I dropped it.
My question is along the lines of the one I asked about Dr. Silkworth's colloidal gold and colloidal iodine treatment [ 2020-12-11 ? #687} which Bob Dunkley was able to answer.
I am curious as to whether this doctor's concern with spinal fluid pressure turned out to be valid, the history of treatments of spinal fluid pressure, whether such a treatment would have been considered a sensible treatment at the time and how it would be viewed today.?
Having read your book, when I found the NYC doctor who liked to relieve spinal pressure, my first thought was "Hank probably misremembered it or put the doctor in Chicago instead of NYC for some other reason!"
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