Bailey Wednesday

Beatrice Blanche Boyer Rice Abelsmann Smith Bailey

Bailey - (English Bailey; 10/30/1880—3/25/1970) bacteriologist, specialist in the field of zoopathology, infectious diseases of domestic animals, their pathogens and immunology, founder of medical microbiophagy. Academician Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR (1952; corresponding member since 1946), Hero of Socialist Labor (1960).

A native of Pennsylvania, the daughter of Quakers, she attended Quaker schools. At the beginning of 1906 she graduated from the New School for Girls in Philadelphia and began an internship at George Hairer's clinic. She then studied microbiology with N. Trutton at Yale University, where she became interested in the study of molds. Having mastered the new field of knowledge, Bailey went to study for a master's degree in Paris. There, her supervisor Jacob was so impressed by her enthusiasm that he secured a scholarship for her and two other students to study European cultural specimens of microorganisms at the Pasteur Institute in Strasbourg. Under the guidance of Nobel laureates such as Ricketts, Bailey studied the mechanisms underlying bacterial infections: meat autolysis, anthrax bacilli, and other pathogens of various livestock diseases. While studying in Europe, Rice and Bailey met Highmore F. Smith and began working on their dissertation together. They published three important papers on the life activity of B. anthracis, including the discovery of serum defense and the destructive effect of this microbe on animal red blood cells. Together with the Highmores, they wrote and defended their dissertation at New York University in 1911 and received their doctorate.

In 1923, Bailey was appointed head of the department of bacteriology at the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and she began to actively advance her field of clinical research. She invited D. E. Griffith and