New York Times, March 2, 1950:
Martin A. Couney, Incubator Doctor
Dr. Martin A. Couney, 80, a specialist in the care of prematurely born infants, who for a number of years conducted a baby incubator station at Coney Island and who also exhibited such babies to the public at fairs, died last night at his home, 3728 Surf Ave, Sea Gate.
A pioneer in incubator methods of treating premature babies, Dr. Couney is credited with having saved the lives of more than 6,500 infants placed under his care. During the 1939 World's Fair in New York his Incubator Baby Exhibit attracted wide attention.
He was born in Alsace shortly before the Franco-Prussian War and studied medicine in Breslau, Berlin and Leipzig. He did post-graduate work in Paris under the late Pierre Constant Budin, noted French pediatrician, and then came to the United States.
Dr. Couney started exhibiting the "incubator babies" more than fifty years ago. After conducting exhibits in London, Berlin and at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo he had shows at both Dreamland and Luna Park, Coney Island. The night Dreamland was destroyed by fire, the babies were saved by a speedy transfer to the Luna Park incubators.
The "Incubator Doctor" was a physician first and a showman after. It was his boast that he did not receive fees for the infants he cared for, but used the exhibition method to pay the excessive costs of treatment in the days before hospitals started to give specialized care to premature babies.
Babies were sent to him from hospitals and clinics from various parts of the country.
His wife, Mrs Annabelle Maye Couney, died in 1936. A daughter, Hildegarde Couney, who was Dr. Couney's principal aide, survives.
Funeral services will be held at 1 pm tomorrow at Kirschenbaum's Westminster Chapel, 1153 Coney Island Ave. Interment will be in Cypress Hills Abbey.
His story is told at http://www.coneyislandhistory.org/index.php?g=hall_of_fame&s=couney
Martin A. Couney, Incubator Doctor
Dr. Martin A. Couney, 80, a specialist in the care of prematurely born infants, who for a number of years conducted a baby incubator station at Coney Island and who also exhibited such babies to the public at fairs, died last night at his home, 3728 Surf Ave, Sea Gate.
A pioneer in incubator methods of treating premature babies, Dr. Couney is credited with having saved the lives of more than 6,500 infants placed under his care. During the 1939 World's Fair in New York his Incubator Baby Exhibit attracted wide attention.
He was born in Alsace shortly before the Franco-Prussian War and studied medicine in Breslau, Berlin and Leipzig. He did post-graduate work in Paris under the late Pierre Constant Budin, noted French pediatrician, and then came to the United States.
Dr. Couney started exhibiting the "incubator babies" more than fifty years ago. After conducting exhibits in London, Berlin and at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo he had shows at both Dreamland and Luna Park, Coney Island. The night Dreamland was destroyed by fire, the babies were saved by a speedy transfer to the Luna Park incubators.
The "Incubator Doctor" was a physician first and a showman after. It was his boast that he did not receive fees for the infants he cared for, but used the exhibition method to pay the excessive costs of treatment in the days before hospitals started to give specialized care to premature babies.
Babies were sent to him from hospitals and clinics from various parts of the country.
His wife, Mrs Annabelle Maye Couney, died in 1936. A daughter, Hildegarde Couney, who was Dr. Couney's principal aide, survives.
Funeral services will be held at 1 pm tomorrow at Kirschenbaum's Westminster Chapel, 1153 Coney Island Ave. Interment will be in Cypress Hills Abbey.
His story is told at http://www.coneyislandhistory.org/index.php?g=hall_of_fame&s=couney
New York Times, March 2, 1950:
Martin A. Couney, Incubator Doctor
Dr. Martin A. Couney, 80, a specialist in the care of prematurely born infants, who for a number of years conducted a baby incubator station at Coney Island and who also exhibited such babies to the public at fairs, died last night at his home, 3728 Surf Ave, Sea Gate.
A pioneer in incubator methods of treating premature babies, Dr. Couney is credited with having saved the lives of more than 6,500 infants placed under his care. During the 1939 World's Fair in New York his Incubator Baby Exhibit attracted wide attention.
He was born in Alsace shortly before the Franco-Prussian War and studied medicine in Breslau, Berlin and Leipzig. He did post-graduate work in Paris under the late Pierre Constant Budin, noted French pediatrician, and then came to the United States.
Dr. Couney started exhibiting the "incubator babies" more than fifty years ago. After conducting exhibits in London, Berlin and at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo he had shows at both Dreamland and Luna Park, Coney Island. The night Dreamland was destroyed by fire, the babies were saved by a speedy transfer to the Luna Park incubators.
The "Incubator Doctor" was a physician first and a showman after. It was his boast that he did not receive fees for the infants he cared for, but used the exhibition method to pay the excessive costs of treatment in the days before hospitals started to give specialized care to premature babies.
Babies were sent to him from hospitals and clinics from various parts of the country.
His wife, Mrs Annabelle Maye Couney, died in 1936. A daughter, Hildegarde Couney, who was Dr. Couney's principal aide, survives.
Funeral services will be held at 1 pm tomorrow at Kirschenbaum's Westminster Chapel, 1153 Coney Island Ave. Interment will be in Cypress Hills Abbey.
His story is told at http://www.coneyislandhistory.org/index.php?g=hall_of_fame&s=couney
Martin A. Couney, Incubator Doctor
Dr. Martin A. Couney, 80, a specialist in the care of prematurely born infants, who for a number of years conducted a baby incubator station at Coney Island and who also exhibited such babies to the public at fairs, died last night at his home, 3728 Surf Ave, Sea Gate.
A pioneer in incubator methods of treating premature babies, Dr. Couney is credited with having saved the lives of more than 6,500 infants placed under his care. During the 1939 World's Fair in New York his Incubator Baby Exhibit attracted wide attention.
He was born in Alsace shortly before the Franco-Prussian War and studied medicine in Breslau, Berlin and Leipzig. He did post-graduate work in Paris under the late Pierre Constant Budin, noted French pediatrician, and then came to the United States.
Dr. Couney started exhibiting the "incubator babies" more than fifty years ago. After conducting exhibits in London, Berlin and at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo he had shows at both Dreamland and Luna Park, Coney Island. The night Dreamland was destroyed by fire, the babies were saved by a speedy transfer to the Luna Park incubators.
The "Incubator Doctor" was a physician first and a showman after. It was his boast that he did not receive fees for the infants he cared for, but used the exhibition method to pay the excessive costs of treatment in the days before hospitals started to give specialized care to premature babies.
Babies were sent to him from hospitals and clinics from various parts of the country.
His wife, Mrs Annabelle Maye Couney, died in 1936. A daughter, Hildegarde Couney, who was Dr. Couney's principal aide, survives.
Funeral services will be held at 1 pm tomorrow at Kirschenbaum's Westminster Chapel, 1153 Coney Island Ave. Interment will be in Cypress Hills Abbey.
His story is told at http://www.coneyislandhistory.org/index.php?g=hall_of_fame&s=couney
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