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March 27, 1981, Vol 245, No. 12 >
ARTICLE | March 27, 1981

Infants and Gin Mania in 18th-Century London FREE

Alvin E. Rodin, MD
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Presented in part at the annual meeting of the American Osier Society, Boston, April 29, 1980.

Reprint requests to Wright State University School of Medicine, PO Box 927, Dayton, OH 45401 (Dr Rodin).


JAMA. 1981;245(12):1237-1239. doi:10.1001/jama.1981.03310370029017
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A study of Hogarth's engraving, Gin Lane, highlights the fact that alcoholic addiction in parents results not only in the fetal alcohol syndrome, but also in other types of infant abuse. Physical trauma, loss of parents, neglect, and malnutrition are all depicted. There is the strong implication that the causes of such infant abuse, and thus the prevention, lie largely in socioeconomic and cultural fields, rather than in that of medical scienc

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Warner RH, Rosett HL:  The effects of drinking on offsprings: A historical survery of the American and British literature . J Stud Alcohol 1975;;36:1395-1420.

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Schaefer O:  Acute alcohol withdrawal syndrome in a newborn infant of a Yukon Indian mother . Can Med Assoc J 1962;;87:1333-1334.
2 +
Jones KL, Smith DW, Ulleland CN, et al:  Pattern of malformation in offspring of chronic alcoholic mothers . Lancet 1973;;1:1267-1271.
3 +
Streissguth AP, Herman CS, Smith DW:  Intelligence, behavior, and dysmorphogenesis in the fetal alcohol syndrome: A report on 20 patients . J Pediatr 1978;;92:363-367.
4 +
Fleming A: Alcohol: The Delightful Poison . New York, Dell Publishing Co Inc, 1975;, pp 12-13.
5 +
Besant W: London . London, Chatto & Windus, 1912;, p 319.
6 +
George MD: London Life in the 18th Century . Harmondsworth, England, Penguin Books Ltd, 1966;, pp 41-55.
7 +
Fielding H: An Inquiry Into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers Etc With Some Proposals for Remedying This Growing Evil . London, A Miller, 1851;, pp 19-20.
8 +
Binklewicz A, Robinson MJ, Senior B:  Pseudo-Cushing syndrome caused by alcohol in breast milk . J Pediatr 1978;;93:965-967.
9 +
Little RE:  Moderate alcohol use during pregnancy and decreased infant birth weight . Am J Public Health 1977;;67:1154-1156.
10 +
Paulson R: Hogarth, His Life, Art and Times . New Haven, Yale University Press, 1971;, vol 1 and 2.
11 +
Shesgreen S: Engravings by Hogarth . New York, Dover Publications Inc, 1973;, plates 22, 24, 44, 56, and 76.
12 +
Lindsay J: Hogarth, His Art and His World . New York, Taplinger Publishing Co Inc, 1979;, p 156.
13 +
Marshall D: Eighteenth Century England . New York, David McKay Co Inc, 1962;, pp 34-37.
14 +
Hodge GP:  Pathology in fine art . Visual Med 1966;;1:50-55.
15 +
Warner RH, Rosett HL:  The effects of drinking on offsprings: A historical survery of the American and British literature . J Stud Alcohol 1975;;36:1395-1420.

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