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Real, Live Practice Babies
Topic Started: Jan 10 2011, 07:55 PM (832 Views)
jon-nyc
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Wow.

http://blogs.plos.org/wonderland/2011/01/04/real-live-practice-babies/

In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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JoeB
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Kind of like the Incubator Babies at Coney Island.
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This picture was taken in 1905.

Dr. Martin Couney was a pretty amazing fellow.
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Dr. Martin Arthur Couney saved the lives of thousands of premature infants at his Coney Island baby incubator exhibit. It is hard to believe that incubators were not used or accepted by the medical establishment until the 1930s. Couney was forced to make his clinic into a sideshow exhibit. Although the exhibit was located in an amusement park, the atmosphere inside was solemn and professional. Couney never charged parents a fee for the care he gave their infants. His clinic was financed strictly through entrance fees.
Couney received his medical degree in Germany and studied with Dr. Pierre Budin, who had pioneered the theory of incubators. Couney had two exhibits in Coney Island, one in Luna Park from 1903 until 1943, and another in Dreamland from 1904 until the fire of 1911. His medical consisted of five wet-nurses and fifteen highly trained medical technicians including his daughter Hildegarde, a nurse. By 1939, he had treated more than 8,000 babies and saved the lives of 6,500. One of them was his daughter, who had weighed less than three pounds at birth.

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There's lots more info on the web about the incubator babies, for example PBS Video of incubators on the midway at the worlds Fair in 1940.


In the early 1940's hospitals started treating premature babies with incubators and Dr. Couney ceased using infants on the midway saying "My work is done."
"There are many ingredients in the stew of annoyance." - Bucky Katt
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jon-nyc
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Wow, Joe, I had never heard of that either. Thanks for posting.
In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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apple
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very interesting photo Joe, with the smokey feel. very interesting story too.
it behooves me to behold
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brenda
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Thanks for posting that, Joe.
“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
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Aqua Letifer
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apple
Jan 11 2011, 05:29 AM
very interesting photo Joe, with the smokey feel. very interesting story too.
Those are people.

Long exposure.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Kincaid
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Interesting - and note that dinner referred to lunch and supper was the evening meal.
Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006.
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brenda
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Kincaid
Jan 11 2011, 11:33 AM
Interesting - and note that dinner referred to lunch and supper was the evening meal.
Still are in Minnesooooota.
“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
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