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The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies by Dawn Raffel

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streberkatze's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.5

The intersection of medical history, Jewish history, and popular history is right in my wheelhouse. Plus, I've recently become fascinated by the history of Coney Island, which led me to this book. I did have to skip the section elaborating on an incident of animal cruelty in great detail. (I believe it was in the chapter
Two Elephants, a Wedding, and a Bunch of Crying Babies.
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dalek_caan's review against another edition

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informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

This was such an interesting story, I had heard of Dr. Couney before but not nearly in this much detail. This book overall was extremely informative and in many ways does not feel like your typical biography. I would recommend to anyone interested in medical history it was a really quick read and clearly well researched. 
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