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Was Coney Island’s ‘Incubator Doctor’ Martin Couney A Fraud?
Photo via Coney Island History ProjectMuch ink has been spilled about Dr. Martin Couney, the famed — or infamous — incubator doctor, a medical pioneer who saved thousands of premature babies through his Coney Island side show exhibit at a time when mainstream hospitals were slow to adopt the newfangled incubator technology.