Did You Know: Preemies in Sideshows
Thursday, January 3, 2008 6:20In the early 1890’s, Dr. Alexandre Lion designed his own incubators and financed the care of premature infants throughout France by charging admission to view his nurseries. Then, in 1896, he organized a display of premature infants at the Berliner Gewerbeausstellung. Following suit, incubator babies were placed on display in sideshows in nearly every major exposition and World’s Fair in America between 1898 and 1939. Although these displays would seem barbaric by current standards, they actually provided medical care to many premature infants who would have died otherwise and provided a model for regionalized neonatal care.
Much of this history was found at www.Neonatology.org. Check out the site for even more information about the past and present practice of neonatology.
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