Pearce Bailey (1865–1922) was an American

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and psychiatrist, educated at

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and Columbia Universities. He became a consultant in several New York hospitals and with

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and Frankel founded the Neurological Institute. He was also appointed an associate professor of neurology in Columbia. On the entry of the United States into

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, he was appointed chief of the division of neurology and psychiatry in the United States army with the rank of colonel. He perfected a system for weeding out "mental defectives" which is said to have been used as a model by the Allies. His major literary efforts comprised a translation of Golobievski's ''Atlas and Epitome of Diseases Caused by Accident (1900) and a monograph ''Accident and Injury''; Relation to the Nervous System'' (1906), which was later expanded into ''Diseases of the Nervous System Resulting from Accident and Injury'', a valuable work for the medical world. At the time of his death, Bailey was chairman of the New York State Committee for Mental Defectives.

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* Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons alumni United States Army personnel of World War I American neurologists 1865 births 1922 deaths Princeton University alumni American psychiatrists {{US-army-World-War-I-bio-stub