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"fetal alcohol syndrome was first described in his lab in 1963,...

2. Chamove: "fetal alcohol syndrome was first described in his lab in 1963, before that maternal consumption of alcohol was considered unimportant for the fetus;"

The paper almost universally acknowledged as the landmark report is: Pattern of malformation in offspring of chronic alcoholic mothers. Jones KL, Smith DW, Ulleland CN, Streissguth P. Lancet 1973. [Almost universally because, apparently, Harlow's apologists think that everything was discovered in his lab.]

From the abstract: "Case histories are presented of 8 unrelated children born to mothers who were chronic alcoholics. These children showed a similar pattern of craniofacial, limb, and cardiovascular defects associated with prenatal-onset growth deficiency and developmental delay. This is the 1st report to document an association between maternal alcoholism and aberrant morphogenesis in the offspring."

One author writes: "In 1973, whilst doing research on human behavioral teratology (the study of birth defects) [Drs] Kenneth L. Jones and David W. Smith along with their colleagues in Seattle identified a specific pattern of malformations, growth deficiencies and Central Nervous System (CNS) dysfunctions that were observable in some offspring of alcoholic mothers
(Jones, Smith, Ulleland & Streissguth, 1973), a pattern that two of them then named Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS), (Jones & Smith, 1973). Though this had been previously brought to light some years before in clinical studies of alcoholic mothers, (Lemoine, Harousseau, Borrteyri & Menuet, 1968;
Rouquette, 1957) once the two Seattle groups had had their findings published in the much read and respected medical magazine "Lancet", interest in the subject quickly, yet quietly took hold of those whom read it."

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