“Silas Weir Mitchell” is a biographical memoir written by Percival Bailey for the National Academy of Sciences in Washington D.C. with the copyright date of 1958. Percival Bailey was a well known neurosurgeon and psychiatrist in the 1950s who was interested the Silas Weir Mitchell’s philosophy of the rest cure and background. This source dives into Dr. Mitchell’s childhood and his father’s work in the medical field. Mitchell became one of the greatest nervouses disease consultants of his time, developing the rest cure. He believed there would be better results with non medical or drug related treatments, therefore Dr. Mitchell prescribed rest and isolation for women suffering postpartum depression. He was Accused for many years of falsely claiming
