How a Fake Doctor Ran Carnival Sideshows, Saved Thousands of American Infants, and Changed Medical History
Our American Stories
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4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Our American Stories, Dr. Martin Couney carried a secret with him, but the results are unimpeachable. It was Coney Island in the early 1900’s. Beyond the Four-Legged Woman, the sword swallowers, and “Lionel the Lion-Faced Man,” was an entirely different exhibit: rows of tiny, premature human babies living in glass incubators. Here to tell the story is Dawn Raffel, author of "The Strange Case of Dr. Couney."
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