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Babies On Display: When A Hospital Couldn’t Save Them, A Sideshow Did

By July 11, 2015 September 7th, 2018 No Comments

Close to a century ago, New York’s Coney Island was famed for its sideshows. Loud-lettered signs crowded the island’s attractions, crowing over tattooed ladies, sword swallowers ā€” and even an exhibition of tiny babies. The babies were premature infants kept alive in incubators pioneered by Dr.

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