Philip M. Mininberg[1] (November 12, 1886 โ March 19, 1951) was a Russian Empire-born American obstetrician. He owned and operated Brooklyn Doctors Hospital, formerly the Borough Park Maternity Hospital.[2] He also owned a nurses' residence across the street.[3]
The application of adrenalin on a boy described as born dead was first made on babies by Philip Mininberg.[4][5]
Early life
Mininberg[6] was born in Poltava, Russian Empire in 1886[7] and brought to the United States as a child. He received his medical diploma from New York University in 1915.[2][8]
Career
In 1923, Mininberg successfully revived "by unusual means" a baby boy (a twin to a girl) born apparently dead.[5] The key was that he "pierced the chest wall" and injected a solution of adrenalin directly into the heart.[9] That baby weighed more than two pounds; in 1949, the technique was used on a 15 oz. premature infant.[10]
Mininberg practiced medicine in Brooklyn beginning in 1915. The last 28 years of his life he owned and operated Brooklyn Doctors Hospital (formerly Boro Park Maternity Hospital).[2]
Family
Mininberg died of a stroke in 1951.[11] He was survived by his wife, their three children, four sisters, and a grandson.[2]
^"New York, Southern District, U.S District Court Naturalization Records, 1824-1946", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP76-V17C : 8 March 2021), Philip Mininberg, 1908.