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According to Jones and Smith (1973) the potential adverse effect of maternal alcoholism on the development of the offspring has been referred to in early Greek and Roman mythology. In a Carthaginian ritual, the bridal couple was forbidden to drink wine on their wedding night in order that defective children might not be conceived (Haggard and Jellinek 1942). Also, according to Jones and Smith (1973, 1975), the British House of Commons indicated in 1834, in a report by a select committee investigating drunkenness, that infants born to alcoholic mothers sometimes had a starved, shrivelled and imperfect look.
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Heyns, M. (1997). Introduction. In: The Influence of Ethyl Alcohol on the Development of the Chondrocranium of Gallus gallus. Advances in Anatomy Embryology and Cell Biology, vol 134. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60555-0_1
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