O publicznych pokazach wcześniaków i wiolonczelistce Virginii Apgar

The first primitive models of incubators were created at the end of the 19th century. Incubators were soon exposed in front of the ordinary people who were ready to pay for observing live little infants in their houses of glass. From 1896 until the 1940s Martin Couney called Incubator Doctor organised commercial shows during great expositions, fairs as well as in amusement centers and lunaparks. In 1934 dr Martin Couney received an unusual proposal to take care of quintuplets Dionne born in a small canadian village. Five girls were born nearly two months premature, all together weighed about 5 kilograms, the smallest girl weighed only 875 g. Martin Couney refused this proposal because he was sure-like all other people- that the quintuplets had no chance of survival. In 1953 Virginia Apgar presented her simple method evaluation of newborn infant. The Quintuplets Dionne were 19 years old at that time.