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What was the name of the first baby to use an incubator?

Starts with the letter E.

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1. Edward.
2. dont know any E but what is an incubator?????
3. Sorry no name: One of the first modern incubator systems was invented by Alexandre Lion of France. The Lion incubators, which were later used in the first American incubator hospitals, were invented in 1891. These incubators were heated by a cylindrical water boiler that was mounted on the outside wall of the incubator. This type of incubator system was unique, because the incubators had their own ventilation systems. Each incubator "was ventilated by fresh air blown though a large pipe by an electric fan on the outside of the building; the air entered the incubator through a metal box attached to the left side of each cabinet" (Silverman 131). (See Figure A.) By regulating the temperature of the infants and filtering the air, the Lion incubators were able to successfully treat most infants. 4 Since the Lion incubators were very complicated and very expensive, the technology was hard to sell to hospitals. To promote the technology, Alexandre Lion displayed the incubators and their premature residents at fairs and expositions, becoming the first person to do so. At some point in this process, Lion came up with the important idea of charging admission, which further reduced the cost of running the equipment (Baker 89). The success of this idea had much to do with the turn-of-the-century fascination with technology. Barely out of the industrial revolution, people were mesmerized by the sight of new technology at work. 5 Inspired by Lion's success and fascinated by the popularity of the exhibits, Martin Couney set up an incubator exhibit at an exposition in Berlin. Couney was German, and a student of the noted pediatrician Pierre Budin. Budin had studied under Stephane Tarnier, who had invented the first warm air incubator ( Silverman 127). The Berlin exhibition was immensely successful and a second exhibit was set up the following year in London. After the second exhibition, "struck by the success of both shows, Martin Couney resolved to become a professional doctor-turned-showman" (Baker 90-91). 6 Couney set up his first American incubator hospital at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition in 1898 in Omaha, Nebraska. Although the exhibit did not attract very much attention at the time, he returned to the United States three years later to set up an immensely popular incubator exhibit at the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition. Under Martin Couney, "the incubator stood poised to take the country by storm in 1900" (Baker 76). http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ht/35.1/lieberman.html But if you have the patience you can look at all the books written http://www.digitalbookindex.org/_SEARCH/search010histmedicalneonatala.asp This is definitely not the first one CONEY ISLAND. When Roslyn Tromer was born prematurely at Coney Island Hospital, her parents placed her in the care of Dr. Martin Couney, the world’s foremost specialist in premature infant care. Couney promptly placed Tromer on display in a baby incubator and charged crowds 10 cents a head to view her as part of his Coney Island premature baby show. “The incubators were like little ovens,” Tromer said in her interview with the Coney Island History Project. “It’s amazing I survived.” Dr. Couney’s Premature Baby Show ran in Coney Island from 1903 to 1943. Back then, they offered premature baby care for free, paid for by admission. Of the 8,000 babies who came through, 6,500 survived. http://ny.metro.us/metro/local/article/Coney_Islands_history_captured/8828.html No name: Dr. Martin A. Couney, a specialist in the care of prematurely born infants, who had shown such babies to the public for an admission price at fairs and other exhibitions throughout the United States and in Europe for more than fifty years, died last night at his home, 3728 Surf Avenue, Sea Gate, Coney Island. He was 80 years old. "The Incubator Doctor" as Dr. Couney was informally known, was born in Germany, studied medicine in Breslau, Berlin and Leipzig, receiving an M.D., and later in Paris under Dr. Pierre C. Budin, noted pediatrician, who developed a method of saving the prematurely born. At the Berlin Exposition in 1896, Dr. Couney operated an exhibit of prematurely born babies to show the Budin technique. The exhibit was a financial success, as was a second one at Earl's Court in London. In 1898 Dr. Couney paid his first visit to the United States and staged an exhibit at the Omaha Trans-Mississippi Exposition. He returned to Paris for the exposition of 1900, but was back in this country for the Buffalo Exposition the next year, and then decided to remain here for good. For years he had shows at both Dreamland and Luna Park, and the night Dreamland was destroyed by fire the babies were saved by a quick transfer to the Luna Park incubators, some of the lodgers doubling up. http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/64/2/127
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