Pearce Bailey (July 12, 1865 – 1922) was an American

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and

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. Bailey was born July 12, 1865, in

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to William E. Bailey and Harriet B. Pearce. He received a

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degree from

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in 1886 and a

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degree from

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in 1889. He became a consultant in several

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hospitals and with Joseph Collins, Charles Elsberg, and Joseph Fraenkel, founded the Neurological Institute of New York. He was assistant in pathology at Columbia University from 1895 to 1897 and was appointed assistant in neurology in 1892. 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

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. His major literary efforts comprised a translation of Golobievski's ''Atlas and Epitome of Diseases Caused by Accident (1900) and a

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''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