I believe that Sarah Tracey's Ph.D. dissertation on female inebriety which used records from the Massachusetts institution for Inebriets will be helpful. I am a new subscriber to the list and I am newly interested in the history of alcoholism. I am a historian of medicine and women and I am interested in writing on fetal alcohol syndrome from a historical perspective. I am going to begin by looking at the medical literature, with which I am most familiar. I would like to hear from anyone who can assist me and with whom I can talk directly on the internet. Janet Golden [log in to unmask]