Martin Couney was never a Doctor Never had a license. Never stepped foot in a medical school.
But it saved over 7,000 lives.
In the early 1900s, when the world saw premature babies as nature’s mistakes—too weak to deserve a future—Couney saw hope.
While the eugenists said “let them die”, he said “let’s fight”.
Put on a show in Coney Island.
An amusement park .
There, between cotton candy and ferris wheels, he displays premature babies in incubators, as part of a show.
Sim, um show.
Because it was the only way to fund their care.
The hospitals didn’t want them. The medicine has ignored them
But Couney treated them with care, warmth, and humanity — all sustained by the entrances of curious visitors.
The inspiration came from the Chicago World’s Fair, where it saw chicken incubators being used on babies.
In what many called insanity, he saw the future.
And it was right.
By the time his show ended in 1943, nearly every hospital in the United States was already using incubators.
What science refused, show embraced.
What the elite called a freak, he turned into salvation.
Martin Couney may not have had a degree.
But he had some courage.
There was a vision.
And most of all, have compassion for those the world insists on forgetting.
Today, thousands live because an “imposter” dared to defy death.
Not with a vest on.
But with humanity.
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