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Known as 'the Incubator Doctor', Martin Couney was responsible for saving over 7,000 prematurely born babies during his lifetime. He achieved this by showcasing these infants in incubators at his Coney Island exhibition, charging visitors 25 cents to observe the babies in their incubators.
In the early 1900s, many eugenicists propagated the idea that premature babies were fated to die and not worth the effort to save. However, Couney countered this notion with his unique exhibition. Inspired by the use of chicken incubators as 'child hatcheries' at the Chicago World's Fair, he understood the potential of incubators to bring fragile newborns back from death's doorstep, and was keen to emulate this success. By the time his Coney Island exhibition shut its doors in 1943, virtually all hospitals in America had incorporated the use of these lifesaving devices.

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