James Joseph Walsh (1865–1942) was an American physician and author.
Biography
Walsh was born in Archbald, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Fordham College in 1884 (PhD, 1892) and from the University of Pennsylvania (MD) in 1895. After postgraduate work in Paris, Vienna and Berlin he settled in New York. Walsh was for many years Dean and Professor of nervous diseases and of the history of medicine at Fordham University school of medicine.
In addition to contributing to the New International Encyclopedia and to medical and other journals, he also published a variety of popular works.
In 1916, he received the Laetare Medal from the University of Notre Dame.
Works
Essays in Pastoral Medicine. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1906 (with Austin O'Malley). Catholic Churchmen in Science; Sketches of the Lives of Catholic Ecclesiastics who were Among the Great Founders in Science. Philadelphia: The Dolphin Press, 1906 (second series, 1909; third series, 1915). Makers of Modern Medicine. New York: Fordham University Press, 1907. The Popes and Science: The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time. New York: Fordham University Press, 1908. The Thirteenth, Greatest of Centuries. New York: Catholic Summer School Press. 1907. History of the Medical Society of the State of New York. Published by the Society, 1907. The Chirpings of Dusty Mike. Richmond: The Dietz Printing Co., 1908. Makers of Electricity. New York: Fordham University Press, 1909 (with Brother Potamian). Education: How Old the New. New York: Fordham University Press, 1911. Old-Time Makers of Medicine; the Story of the Students and Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages. New York: Fordham University Press, 1911. Modern Progress and History; Addresses on Various Academic Occasions. New York: Fordham University Press, 1912. Psychotherapy. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1912. The Century of Columbus. New York: Catholic Summer School Press, 1914. Was Shakespeare a Catholic? America Press, 1915. Health Through Will Power. New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 1919. Success in a New Era. Hoboken, N.J.: Franklin-Webb Company, 1919. History of Medicine in New York, Three Centuries of Medical Progress, Vol. 2, Vol. 3. New York: National Americana Society, Inc., 1919. Religion and Health. New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 1920.
Medieval Medicine. London: A. & C. Black, 1920. Cures; the Story of the Cures that Fail. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1923. What Civilization Owes to Italy. Boston: The Stratford Co., 1923. The World's Debt to the Catholic Church. Boston: The Stratford Co., 1924. Safeguarding Children's Nerves: A Handbook of Mental Hygiene. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1924 (with James Ambrose Foote). Eating and Health. Boston: The Stratford Company, 1925. Spiritualism a Fact, Spiritualism a Fake. Boston: Stratford Company, 1925 (with Hereward Carrington). The World's Debt to the Irish. Boston: The Stratford Company, 1926. Our American Cardinals; Life Stories of the Seven American Cardinals: McCloskey, Gibbons, Farley, O'Connell, Dougherty, Mundelein, Hayes. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1926. These Splendid Priests. New York: J.H. Sears & Company, Inc., 1926. These Splendid Sisters, Books for Libraries Press, 1970 (1st Pub., New York: J.H. Sears & Company, Inc., 1927). Priests and Long Life. New York: J.F. Wagner & B. Herder, 1927. Laughter and Health. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1928. A Catholic Looks at Life. Boston: The Stratford Company, 1928. The Catholic Church and Healing. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928. The Golden Treasure of Medieval Literature. Boston: The Stratford Co., 1930. Mother Alphonsa: Rose Hawthorne Lathrop. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1930. Sex Instruction. New York: J.F. Wagner, Inc., 1931. American Jesuits. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1934. Education of the Founding Fathers of the Republic. New York: Fordham University Press, 1935. High Points of Medieval Culture. Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Company, 1938.