Coney Island’s Miracle Babies and the Fake Doctor That Saved Them
From No One Saw It Coming
Published 9/1/2025
If you had a premature baby in America in the 1900s, chances were they would not survive. That is, until Martin Couney came along...In a bizarre attraction in Coney Island, 'Dr Couney' took the children that medicine deemed 'not worth saving' and displayed them to the public in rows of cutting-edge…
