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Articles and publications written by Charles Philamore Bailey, along with research materials, mostly regarding heart surgery. Dr. Bailey was a renowned heart surgeon and is known for pioneering methods for surgery on the mitral valve in 1946, which greatly expanded the possibilities of viable heart surgeries. Dr. Bailey graduated from Hahnemann Medical College in 1932. After his graduation he went on to become the Chief of Thoracic Surgery at Hahnemann Hospital during the 1940s and 1950s. From 1956 to 1961 Dr. Bailey was the Director of Cardiovascular Surgery at Deborah Heart and Lung Center, and was also the Director of General Surgery at New York Medical College from 1959-1962. Aside from teaching and lecturing in various capacities, Dr. Bailey also earned a law degree from Fordham University Law School in the late 1960s, and after taking up work as a legal consultant, he had stopped conducting surgeries by the mid 1970s.