Picture No | 10218175 |
Date | 1896 |
Description | Baby incubators at the Berlin Exhibition |
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Dr Lion's baby incubators proved to be a great attraction at the Berlin Exhibition. Babies aged between five and eight months old were kept alive in warm temperatures and nourished with drops of milk. Lion termed them as 'an artificial foster mother'. They pre-dated Martin Couney's invention and where commercially produced for supply through Europe and America.
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Source | Engraving in E. Hosang in 'The Graphic', 10 October 1896, page 461 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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