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How a Fake Doctor Ran Carnival Sideshows and Saved Thousands of Infants and Changed Medical History

How a Fake Doctor Ran Carnival Sideshows and Saved Thousands of Infants and Changed Medical History

Update: 2024-12-31
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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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How a Fake Doctor Ran Carnival Sideshows and Saved Thousands of Infants and Changed Medical History

How a Fake Doctor Ran Carnival Sideshows and Saved Thousands of Infants and Changed Medical History

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