Coney Island Research Articles

"Tricks and Treats" on Coney Island

"Tricks and Treats" on Coney Island

Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century. John F. Kasson

<i>Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century</i>. John F. Kasson

Coney Island, followed by Leopard Lady

Research Article| December 01 1980 Coney Island, followed by Leopard Lady Paula Gladstone Paula Gladstone Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (1980) 2 (3 (6)): 120–121. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2-3_6-120 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Paula Gladstone; Coney Island, followed by Leopard Lady. Camera Obscura 1 December 1980; 2 (3 (6)): 120–121. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2-3_6-120 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsCamera Obscura Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 1980 by Camera Obscura1980 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Matrix You do not currently have access to this content.

Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century

Coney Island: the name still resonates with a sense of racy Brooklyn excitement, the echo of beach-front popular entertainment before World War I. Amusing the Million examines the historical context in which Coney Island made its reputation as an amusement park and shows how America's changing social and economic conditions formed the basis of a new mass culture. Exploring it afresh in this way, John Kasson shows Coney Island no longer as the object of nostalgia but as a harbinger of modernity--and the many photographs, lithographs, engravings, and other reproductions with which he amplifies his text support this lively thesis.

Incubator-Baby Side Shows

On the morning of Thursday, March 2, 1950, I read the following obituary in the New York Times: MARTIN A. COUNEY, "INCUBATOR DOCTOR" 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.

Antibiotic Control in a Municipal Hospital

The choice of an antibiotic for a patient is often a difficult decision. The clinician must contend with a bewildering variety of bacteria and use a number of expensive and toxic antimicrobial agents judiciously. To deal with the problems of excessive and inappropriate use, the medical staff of Coney Island Hospital established compulsory, prospective antibiotic control. Two years after initiation of this program, we analyzed changes in sensitivity patterns of hospital flora, physicians' prescribing habits and antibiotic use. A trend toward increasing resistance on the part of some Gram-negative isolates to certain beta-lactam antibiotics was noted. Antibiotic costs decreased an average of 38%, while prescribing skills improved.

Observations on the development and maintenance of the deep sea barnacle,Octolasmis aymonini geryonophila(Pilsbry)

Thirty-two pedunculate barnacles, O. a. geryonophila, were maintained in culture for a period of 2 yr in the laboratory. These barnacles were obtained from the pleopods and mouth parts of the giant marine isopod, Bathynomus giganteus, which had been collected, at a depth of 200 fathoms, in the Gulf of Mexico. The carina, scutum, mandible and maxilla of adult barnacles were typical of deep water species. However, the tergum and labrum were intermediate between those of shallow and deep water species. Adults 3.1–4.1 mm in length were cultured in sea water (15–19°C), and fed on benthic copepods such as Tisbe furcata and Laophonte sp. Three broods of nauplii from 8 barnacles were obtained in 2 yr. Larvae were reared on plankton collected from Coney Island waters in which nauplii reached Stage IV in 10–14 days at 16°C. Isochrysis galbana and Thalassiosira pseudonana individually or in combination maintained nauplii to Stage IV, but with very high mortality. The lack of spines on the carapace edge of the nauplii distinguishes this deep water species from the shallow water form, O. mulleri.

Trace metals in sediments of Raritan bay

Marine sediments are the ultimate recipient of nearly all trace metals introduced by man into aquatic ecosystems. This study examined the amounts and distribution of six trace metals (Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb, Zn) in sediments of Raritan Bay, apolluted estuary. The highest levels of these metals found in Raritan Bay were: Cd-15, Cr-260, Cu-1230, Ni-50, Pb-985, Zn-815. Three metals regimes within Raritan Bay are readily apparent. An area of high values extends across the Bay from the mouth of the Raritan Riverand Arthur Killinto Sandy Hook Bay. This is bounded on the south and northeast by areas of somewhat lower concentrations. An area of relatively low concentrations, near background values, occupies the region at the mouth of the Bay between Sandy Hook peninsula and Coney Island, New York. Metals values from Raritan Bay are compared with other areas and with a few exceptions, the Raritan Bay maximum levels were similar in magnitude to those of areas in Corpus Christi Harbour (U.S.A), Severn Estuary (U.K.), Deep Sea and Florida Lakes, River Blyth (U.K.), dump sites off New York City, various basins off South California, and in Long Island Sound.

The Long Arm of Censorship: Myth-Making in Margaret Fuller's Time and Our Own

Buried in the Fuller archives in the Houghton Library is a copy of a report written fifty-one years after the death of Fuller, too grisly to be credited by any of her biographers. It claims that several days after the July 19, 1850, shipwreck off Fire Island, in which the bodies of Margaret Fuller and her consort or husband, Giovanni Angelo Ossoli, were lost, they were in fact washed ashore. When an enterprising captain boxed the bodies and tried to present them to Horace Greeley, Fuller's friend and employer, the story goes that Greeley refused to have anything to do with them, and the captain, panicking, buried them in the dead of night on Coney Island.1 We can neither establish the truth of this story nor learn, if it were true, what Greeley's motives were in refusing to look upon what might have been the last remains of his friend and the man who fathered her child and shared her last three years. Apocryphal or not, it is suggestive to imagine that Fuller's American friends abandoned

Letter: Home care for the aged.

Comments and Correction1 July 1975Home Care for the AgedDAVID MUMFORD, M.D., IRENE BOGDAN, R.N., ELIZABETH HOYT, M.D., ROSA RODRIGUEZ, M.D.DAVID MUMFORD, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, IRENE BOGDAN, R.N.Search for more papers by this author, ELIZABETH HOYT, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, ROSA RODRIGUEZ, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-83-1-125 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptTo the editor: Doctor Brickner and his team deserve congratulations for organizing the program described in the January 1975 issue of the Annals. He is incorrect, however, in his statement on page 5 that other "programs either lack a full range of professional health services, limit their patients to those with particular health problems, or have other restrictions." In addition, on page 6, he claims to be unaware of programs designed to seek out and deliver a full range of professional health services to homebound, socially isolated older people hidden in the community.For the benefit of Dr. Brickner and...Reference1. SOMERSBRYANT AN: Home care: much needed, much neglected. Ann Intern Med 82:111-112, 1975 LinkGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAuthors: DAVID MUMFORD, M.D.; IRENE BOGDAN, R.N.; ELIZABETH HOYT, M.D.; ROSA RODRIGUEZ, M.D.Affiliations: Organization of Home Health Agencies New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation Coney Island Hospital Brooklyn, New York 11235 PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics 1 July 1975Volume 83, Issue 1Page: 125-126KeywordsMedical services ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 July 1975 PDF downloadLoading ...

Integrated neighborhood and integrated education

Federal Judge Jack Weinstein's recent desegregation order appointing a special master to develop a plan to desegregate not only Mark Twain Junior High School in Coney Island, but its neighborhood as well, gives welcome recognition to the intertwined relationship of the racial composition of schools and neighborhoods. Judge Weinstein has perceived that something must be done about segregation in the neighborhood if anything lasting is to be done about the school. The challenge he has given the special master is to determine what can be done.

A Follow up Study of Psychoeducational Evaluations Sent to Schools

Communication between clinic and school has traditionally been weak. In an attempt to bridge this gap, the Psycho-Educational Center of Coney Island Hospital has prepared prescriptive psychoeducational evaluations of each child referred. In an attempt to determine whether these evaluations are helpful in reeducating children with learning disabilities, teachers and guidance counselors were asked to evaluate the reports sent to them over a six-month period. Response to the questionnaire was positive; analysis of the responses indicates that the psychoeducational evaluations were considered helpful. Specific recommendations for ways to increase the value of these reports are given.

Sufficient treatment for pain.

Comments and Corrections1 June 1973Sufficient Treatment for PainSEYMOUR M. GLICK, M.D.SEYMOUR M. GLICK, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-78-6-974 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptTo the editor: Drs. Marks and Sachar's article, "Undertreatment of Medical Inpatients with Narcotic Analgesics" (Ann Intern Med 78:173-181, 1973), focuses attention on a serious and generally unappreciated phenomenon. But they, as well as Dr. Sapira in his thoughtful editorial, have missed a major point by focusing on the physicians' inadequate pharmacologic knowledge rather than on his humanitarian orientation. More important is the generally inadequate sensitivity of those in the healing professions to human suffering and pain.To support my contention I pose two questions. If the problem was largely pharmacologic misinformation and if the house officers were indeed adequately...Reference1. JAFFE J: Narcotics analgesics, in The Pharmacologic Basis of Therapeutics, 4th ed., edited by GOODMAN LS, GILMAN A. New York, The Macmillan Co., 1970 pp. 237-275 Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAuthors: SEYMOUR M. GLICK, M.D.Affiliations: Medical Services Coney Island Hospital Brooklyn, New York PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics 1 June 1973Volume 78, Issue 6Page: 974-975KeywordsAnalgesicsInpatients ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 June 1973 PDF downloadLoading ...

NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Pediatric Postgraduate Symposium: Maimonides Medical Center, in cooperation with Downstate Medical Center, will sponsor the Eleventh Annual Pediatric Postgraduate Symposium, April 16-17, 1972, at Coney Island Hospital, Brooklyn, New York. Visiting faculty members include Doctors Philip L. Calcagno and Sydney S. Gellis. The program has been approved by the American Academy of General Practice for 14 elective hours. Fee for the course is $60.00. For more information write to Mrs. S. Lasky, Registrar, Department of Pediatric Services, Maimonides Medical Center, 4802 Tenth Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11219.

The intensive care unit of Coney Island Hospital: analysis of results in a twelve-month period.

Abstract737 patients were admitted to the intensive care unit of Coney Island Hospital during a twelve‐month period, at the rate of about 60 per month. The data are analyzed regarding sex, age, race, duration of illness, monthly admission rate, condition of the patient on admission, working diagnoses, length of hospital stay, effectiveness of treatment, final disposition, mortality rate, hour of death, and number of consultations. Of the 737 patients admitted, 269 died (130 of them being classified for the purposes of this study as D.O.A. because they were in the unit for less than twelve hours before death). For the remaining 468 patients, records of disposition were available on only 453; of these, 444 were transferred to the wards after improvement, and 9 were discharged. Contrary to the general impression, the number of deaths was no greater during the 11:00 p.m.–7:00 a.m. shift than at other times. For the patients receiving treatment in this intensive care unit, the mortality rate was 18.7 per cent—which seems quite low in view of the severity of the diseases, the poor prognosis, and the relatively advanced age of the patient (average age, 66 years).The medical intensive care unit, though handicapped by the scarcity of qualified physicians and nurses, is an important element in good hospital care. Every effort should be made to improve and enhance such facilities.

17 Hemangiopericytoma with Angiographic Studies

From the Departments of Pathology and Orthopedic Surgery of the Coney Island Hospital, Division of Maimonides Medical Center, Ocean and Shore Parkways, Brooklyn, N.Y. * Clinical Assistant Professor in Pathology, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center. † Clinical Instructor in Orthopedic Surgery, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center.

NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Pediatric Postgraduate Program of Tuesday Lectures for 1969-1970, sponsored by Maimonides Medical Center and Coney Island Hospital, affiliated with State University of New York Downstate Medical Center and the American Academy of General Practice, Kings County Chapter, will be held at Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York. For further information write: Mrs. Shirley Lasky, Registrar, Department of Pediatric Services, Maimonides Medical Center, 4802 Tenth Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11219. Pediatric Postgraduate Course Of Friday Lectures On The Approach To Pediatrics And Gynecology For The Family Physician is announced by the Department of Pediatric Services and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, and the Kings County Chapter, A.A.G.P. to be held at the Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York.

A Fling with Ferlinghetti

T has rarely been easy to plan a lively and stimulating approach to the teaching of poetry. It has caused many English teachers extra hours of planning, originating creative approaches, and perhaps hoping that their students will like the unit. Often overlooked in presenting American poetry to high school students is the contemporary verse which has appeared in recent years, what some might even call beatnik poetry. Poetry should be an experience for students, not a study, much less a boring one. Contemporary poetry, I believe, can give students an experience that no other verse can. It can spark life into a seemingly dead thing, and one of the most stirring American poets of recent years is Lawrence Ferlinghetti. I have used Ferlinghetti's A Coney Island of the Mind' for the past two years in junior English classes with all boys. The reactions have varied from excited enthusiasm to strong protest. But the important thing is that there have been reactions. Though many teachers, perhaps, would find Ferlinghetti's poems offensive and even crude, I am convinced that they speak to the students as no other poems that I have seen do. Today's teen-agers can easily associate with Ferlinghetti's style. Yet, this author has a definite discipline of form. But he takes basic American speech and makes it sing in a way that no other American poet that I know of has done. His poems reflect simplicity amid complexity. The force that students find dominant

Writing about Science for Children

T O WRITE about science for children an author needs to know science, to know children, and to know how to write-particularly to understand how to communicate with children on their level. It is natural for children to be curious and to ask questions. This is also characteristic of most scientists at work. They might be said to have maintained a child's curiosity about the world in which they live, and their mode of working is to ask questions, even as children do. The form of questions asked by younger children is most often that of identity-seeking. Children pick up a caterpillar, a beetle, a shell, or the eggs of some sea animal and want to know the name of it. Having found the name, they lose interest and usually soon forget the name. I have learned through the years not to tell them the name. Now I never know what the object is, no matter how familiar. I say let's find out and look it up with them in a simple guide, hoping to encourage the habit of looking up such things for themselves. As a help to remembering the name, I try to encourage them to do something with the object found. If children's interests are to be maintained and encouraged to develop it should be possible to incorporate these techniques into the writing of books. It was in this way that I was induced to write a book called Terry and the Caterpillars.' I had known all my adult life that caterpillars spin cocoons but I had never seen them actually do it. Opposite me on the island lived a little girl who kept bringing me caterpillars. We put some huge ones in jars with some twigs and leaves of the plants on which they were found. The following week both of us saw, for the first time in our lives, the spinning of the I saw the effect of this simple scientific observation on the child, felt the excitement myself, and realized that here science met child in a way that could produce a good book. But how does the writer communicate the excitement of the discovery? It is not enough to say, Here is an exciting thing. See the way a caterpillar spins a cocoon. The role of the writer is to write the book so that a child can feel he is participating in an observation or a discovery. It should send him looking for his own caterpillars immediately. A good science book is not just a collection of facts. The biology text Life, by George Gaylord Simpson and collaborators, asks, Are you being a scientist when you count the sand grains on Coney Island beach? No. It is true you are gathering facts, perhaps carefully, but you are probably crazy.2 Scientists gather facts that are relative to some theory to be tested or extended. They have well-formed ideas of what is worth studying at any given time. All scientific work is thus approached with an hypothesis in mind. The very essence of science is the search for general rules, which when found, are summarized in laws and theories. In biology we can think of generalizations such as the cell doctrine, gene theory, the theory of evolution. For example, Darwin's concept of evo-

ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE IN THE AGED.

Journal of the American Geriatrics SocietyVolume 13, Issue 8 p. 738-741 ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE IN THE AGED PAUL P. WEINSAFT M.D., PAUL P. WEINSAFT M.D. Brooklyn Hebrew Home and Hospital for the Aged, Brooklyn, New York Coney Island Hospital, Ocean and Shore Parkways, Brooklyn, N. Y. 11235. Medical Director.Search for more papers by this authorVINCENT HALTAUFDERHYDE B.S., VINCENT HALTAUFDERHYDE B.S. Brooklyn Hebrew Home and Hospital for the Aged, Brooklyn, New York Coney Island Hospital, Ocean and Shore Parkways, Brooklyn, N. Y. 11235.Search for more papers by this author PAUL P. WEINSAFT M.D., PAUL P. WEINSAFT M.D. Brooklyn Hebrew Home and Hospital for the Aged, Brooklyn, New York Coney Island Hospital, Ocean and Shore Parkways, Brooklyn, N. Y. 11235. Medical Director.Search for more papers by this authorVINCENT HALTAUFDERHYDE B.S., VINCENT HALTAUFDERHYDE B.S. Brooklyn Hebrew Home and Hospital for the Aged, Brooklyn, New York Coney Island Hospital, Ocean and Shore Parkways, Brooklyn, N. Y. 11235.Search for more papers by this author First published: August 1965 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-5415.1965.tb00629.xCitations: 2 Medical Director. Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume13, Issue8August 1965Pages 738-741 RelatedInformation