The first description of fetal alcohol syndrome by French pediatrician Paul Lemoine.

摘要

Most published papers cite Jones and Smith of Seattle as the two physicians who first described the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in their Lancet paper of 1973.1 The truth has been different. The first paper came from a rural French pediatrician Paul Lemoine who described 15 fold more cases five years earlier, in 1968. He was unlucky in publishing his cases in an obscure French journal that does not exist any more.2