James Joseph Walsh

James Joseph Walsh, M.D., Ph.D.

James Joseph Walsh, M.D., LL.D., Litt.D., Sc.D. (18651942)[1] was an American physician and author.

Biography

Walsh was born in New York City. He graduated from Fordham College in 1884 (Ph. D., 1892) and from the University of Pennsylvania (M.D.) in 1895. After postgraduate work in Paris, Vienna and Berlin he settled in New York. Doctor 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.[2]

Works

  • 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).[6]
  • 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.[7]
  • 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.

Articles

Miscellany

Notes

  1. "Dr. James J. Walsh is Honored at Rites; Archbishop Spellman Presides at Mass for Physician, Author," The New York Times, March 5, 1942.
  2. Mcnamara, Pat. "James J. Walsh, Neurologist and Medievalist," Patheos, February 28, 2009.
  3. MacCallum, W. G. "Makers of Modern Medicine," Science, New Series, Vol. 26, No. 660, 1907.
  4. Roosevelt, Theodore. "Education: How Old the New," The Outlook, April 8, 1911.
  5. Colby, Elbridge. "Shakespeare and Catholicism," The Ecclesiastical Review, Vol. LV, 1916.
  6. "Safeguarding Children's Nerves: A Handbook of Mental Hygiene," The Saturday Review, June 20, 1925.
  7. Shryock, Richard H. "Mother Alphonsa, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop by James Joseph Walsh," The Mississippi Valley Historical Review 17 (4), March 1931.

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