Philip Mininberg

Philip M. Mininberg (November 12, 1886 – March 19, 1951) was a Russian Empire-born American obstetrician. He owned and operated Brooklyn Doctors Hospital, formerly the Borough Park Maternity Hospital. He also owned a nurses' residence across the street.

The application of adrenalin on a boy described as born dead was first made on babies by Philip Mininberg.

Early life

Mininberg was born in Poltava, Russian Empire in 1886 and brought to the United States as a child. He received his medical diploma from New York University in 1915.

Career

In 1923, Mininberg successfully revived "by unusual means" a baby boy (a twin to a girl) born apparently dead. The key was that he "pierced the chest wall" and injected a solution of adrenalin directly into the heart. That baby weighed more than two pounds; in 1949, the technique was used on a 15 oz. premature infant.

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).

Family

Mininberg died of a stroke in 1951. He was survived by his wife, their three children, four sisters, and a grandson.