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This Fake Doctor Used Premature Babies For People’s Entertainment And Saved 6,500 Lives

Thu, 17 Oct 2019 14:39:15 +0300

“When you see these babies (there may be as many as twenty-five at one time) you will wonder how such strange little creatures will ever be human. They look more like tiny monkeys than the sturdy men and women they eventually will become,” an article from the World’s Fair weekly about incubator babies read. This article named “Saving Babies” was published back in 1933.

Bizarre tale of the Boardwalk babies: How thousands of premature infants were saved from death

Tue, 24 May 2016 11:06:12 +0300

Physician Martin Couney, dubbed 'the incubator doctor', held a sideshow that displayed a genuine life and death struggle of tiny babies. The infant incubator facility on Coney Island was dubbed 'All the World Loves a Baby' and ran from 1903 to 1943. Punters would pay 25 cents to look at the babies - this funded the expensive care they needed.

Premature Twins Holding Hands Take Internet By Storm

Fri, 22 Jan 2016 10:31:35 +0300

On January 4, Anthea Jackson-Rushford from Melbourne, Australia, gave birth to two premature twins. The tiny babies melted everyone’s hearts by holding hands on their father’s chest in a viral video that has nearly 10 million views. “It’s like he’s going…’I’ve got you’,” the new parents said.