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Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Destined For Death, This Unlicensed Exhibitionist Saved Thousands of Babies

Advocate and early pioneer of early neonatal technology, Martin Couney never held a medical license, but he saved more than 7,000 premature babies over the course of his lifetime by exhibiting them in incubators at his Coney Island sideshow. Back in the early 1900s, many eugenicists had popularized... Sign in to see full entry.

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