Preemies on Parade: How a Fake Doctor’s Coney Island Incubator Shows Ended Up Saving Thousands of Lives

Image caption: Martin Couney with two of the premature “incubator babies” in his care. / Found Image Holdings/Corbis via Getty Images (Coney Island postcard), Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain (Luna Park postcard); Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images (baby incubators); The New York Public Library Digital Collections, 1935-1945, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library // Fair Use (Couney). Article by Jordan Friedman. Mental Floss – updated April 27, 2023.

In a Brooklyn, New York, hospital in May 1941, Beth Allen and her twin sister were born three months prematurely, their chances of survival slim. Most hospitals weren’t yet equipped with the right facilities to care for premature infants, and doctors simply didn’t have the resources or skills they needed to help. […]

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