Martin A. Couney

Martin Arthur Couney was a physician and pioneer in neonatology. A student of PierreConstant Budin, he is best known for helping parents of premature infants by placing them in incubators when they were not allowed in most hospitals. He operated exhibits of premature infants at the Berlin Exposition of 1896, at Earls Court Exhibition Centre in London, at the TransMississippi Exposition in Omaha, Nebraska in 1898, at the Worlds Fair in Paris in 1900, at the Worlds Fair in Buffalo, New York in 1901, and most famously, for many years at Coney Island, New York, where he chargedcents to view the babies so parents would not have to pay for their childrens medical care. His exhibition at Luna Park opened in 1903. Incubators were included in hospitals shortly before his death in 1950.

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