James Joseph Walsh

For other people of the same name, see James Walsh (disambiguation).

James J. Walsh
Professor James J. Walsh
Born	James Joseph Walsh (1865-04-12)12 April 1865 Archbald, Pennsylvania
Died	New York City, New York
Citizenship	United States
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Fordham University University of Pennsylvania
Academic advisors	Rudolf Virchow, Ivan Pavlov

James Joseph Walsh, M.D., LL.D., Litt.D., Sc.D. (12 April 1865 – 28 February 1942) was an American physician and author.

Biography

Walsh was born in Archbald, Pennsylvania, the son of Martin J. Walsh and Bridget Golden Walsh, owners of Golden & Walsh General Store. 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. In 1907, after a brief career at the New York Polyclinic Medical School, he returned to Rose Hill to join the faculty of his alma mater. Doctor Walsh was for many years Dean and Professor of nervous diseases (a field today called psychiatry) and of the history of medicine at Fordham University school of medicine. He also lectured on physiological psychology at Cathedral College in New York (1907–1938) and was medical editor of the New York Herald.

At the age of 50, on August 14, 1915, Walsh married Julia Huelat Freed. Their first son, James Jr., was born two years later, and a daughter, Moira, came on November 19, 1919.

In addition to contributing to the New International Encyclopedia, The Catholic Encyclopedia and to medical journals and other publications, he also published a variety of popular works and founded the Fordham University Press.

Honours

Walsh was made Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great and also a Knight of Malta. He received many honorary degrees and belonged to numerous fraternal societies, such as The New York Historical Society, The New York Academy of Medicine and The American Medical Association.

In 1940 he received the gold medal of the American Irish Historical Society.

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.

Articles

• “Life in Modern Biology,” The American Catholic Quarterly Review, Vol. XXIV (1899)
• "A Half-Century in Biology," The Catholic World, Vol. LXX (1900)
• “An Essay in Physiological Psychology,” The American Catholic Quarterly Review, Vol. XXV (1900)
• "Three Great Biologists: Theodor Schwann," The Catholic World, Vol. LXXI (1900)
• "Claude Bernard, the Physiologist," The Catholic World, Vol. LXXI (1900)
• "The Passion Play," The Catholic World, Vol. LXXII (1900)
• “Microbes and Medicine,” The American Catholic Quarterly Review, Vol. XXVII (1901)
• “Michael Servetus and Some Sixteenth Century Educational Notes,” The American Catholic Quarterly Review, Vol. XXVII (1901)
• "Laënnec, a Martyr to Science," The Messenger, Vol. II, Fifth Series (1902)
• "By-Paths of History: The Church and Science in the Middle Ages," Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, Vol. XIV (1903)
• "Biographical Notes on Joseph O'Dwyer, the Inventor of Intubation," Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, Vol. XIV (1903)
• "Sir Henry Irving's Dante", The Catholic World, Vol. LXXVIII (1903)
• "'Parsifal' and a Great Literary Century", The Catholic World, Vol. LXXVIII (1904)
• "Audubon the Naturalist," Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, Vol. XV (1904)
• "John Delavau Bryant," Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, Vol. XV (1904; with Joseph Walsh)
• "The Popes and the History of Anatomy," Medical Library and Historical Journal, Vol. II, No. 1 (1904)
• "Electricity and Orthodoxy," The Catholic World, Vol. LXXIX (1904)
• "Modern Electricity and Orthodoxy," The Catholic World, Vol. LXXIX (1904)
• "A Picture and an Anniversary—Boniface VIII," The Catholic World, Vol. LXXX (1904)
• "Copernicus: Physician, Clergyman and Astronomer," Medical Library and Historical Journal, Vol. III, No. 1 (1905)
• "Silvio Pellico," The Catholic World, Vol. LXXX (1905)
• "The Present Position of Darwinism," The Catholic World, Vol. LXXX (1905)
• "Pope John XXII and the Supposed Bull Forbidding Chemistry," Medical Library and Historical Journal, Vol. III, No. 4 (1905)
• "Edmund Bailey O'Callahan of New York," Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, Vol. XVI (1905)
• "Some Notes on Catholic Bibliography," Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, Vol. XVI (1905)
• "The Chevalier de la Luzerne," Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, Vol. XVI (1905)
• "Doctor Jedediah Vincent Huntington and the Oxford Movement in America," Part II, Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, Vol. XVI (1905)
• "Vesalius as a Horrible Example," The Messenger, Vol. VII, Sixth-Series (1905)
• "Vesalius, the Anatomist, and his Times," The Messenger, Vol. VII, Sixth-Series (1905)
• "Basil Valentine, a Great Pre-Reformation Chemist," The American Catholic Quarterly Review, Vol. XXXI (1906)
• "The Supposed Warfare Between Medical Science and Theology," Medical Library and Historical Journal, Vol. IV, No. 3 (1906)
• "Geography and the Church in the Middle Ages," The American Catholic Quarterly Review, Vol. XXXII (1907)
• "Care of the Mentally Afflicted in Old Catholic Times," The Rosary Magazine, Vol. XXX (1907)
• "A Modern Medical Scientist," The Messenger, Vol. XLVII (1907)
• "Medieval University," The Rosary Magazine, Vol. XXX (1907)
• "The Popes and Medical Education", The Messenger, Vol. XLVIII (1907)
• "Lord Kelvin," The Catholic World, Vol. LXXXVII (1908)
• "The Church and Experimental Method," The American Catholic Quarterly Review, Vol. XXXIII (1908)
• "Spanish-American Education," The American Catholic Quarterly Review, Vol. XXXIII, No. 131 (1908)
• "The Church and Astronomy Before and After Galileo," The American Catholic Quarterly Review, Vol. XXXIII (1908)
• "Women in Medicine," International Clinics, Vol. III, Nineteenth-Series (1909)
• "What Happened at the Reformation?," The American Catholic Quarterly Review, Vol. XXXIV (1909)
• "Clergymen Mathematicians," The American Catholic Quarterly Review, Vol. XXXIV (1909)
• "Scientists and Faith," The American Catholic Quarterly Review, Vol. XXXV (1910)
• "Science at the Medieval Universities," Popular Science Monthly, Vol. LXXVIII (1911)
• "Sir William Hingston," The American Catholic Quarterly Review, Vol. XXXVI (1911)
• "Professional Life and Community Interests," The Creighton Chronicle, Vol II (1911)
• "A Leader in Modern Surgery: Lord Lister," The Catholic World, Vol. XCV (1912)
• "Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564)." In: Twelve Catholic Men of Science. London: Catholic Truth Society (1912)
• "Thomas Dwight," The American Catholic Quarterly Review, Vol. XXXVII (1912)
• "John R.G. Hassard," The Catholic World, Vol. XCVII (1913)
• "John Gilmary Shea," The American Catholic Quarterly Review, Vol. XXXVIII (1913)
• "Science and Religion, Then and Now," The Catholic World, Vol. XCIX (1914)
• "Post-graduate Work at the Universities in the Thirteenth Century," The American Catholic Quarterly Review, Vol. XXXIX (1914)
• "The Warfare of Theology with Science Twenty Years After," The Catholic World, Vol. C (1914)
• "American Philosophy of History Fifty Years Ago," The Catholic World, Vol. C (1915)
• "Some Changes in Religious Feelings in two Generations," The Catholic World, Vol. C (1915)
• "Sixty Historical 'Don'ts'," The Catholic Mind, Vol. XIII (1915)
• "Fifty 'Don'ts' of Science," The Catholic Mind, Vol. XIII (1915)
• "Dante's 650th Birthday," The Catholic Mind, Vol. XIII (1915)
• "Keeping Up the Protestant Tradition," The Catholic World, Vol. CI (1915)
• "Some Reflections on the War and Its Surprises," The American Catholic Quarterly Review, Vol. XL (1915)
• "Was Shakespeare a Catholic?," America, Vol. XIII (1915)
• "Some Chapters in the History of Feminine Education," Part II, The Catholic World, Vol. CII (1915)
• "Andrew Shipman," The Catholic World, Vol. CII (1916)
• "Cervantes, Shakespeare and Some Historical Background," The Catholic World, Vol. CIII (1916)
• "The Evolution of Man," Part II, The Catholic World, Vol. CIII (1916)
• "The Care of the Dependent Poor," The Catholic World, Vol. CIII, No. 618 (1916)
• "Jean Henri Fabre—The Homer of the Insects," The American Catholic Quarterly Review, Vol. XLI (1916)
• "Cervantes and Some Romances, Old and New," The American Catholic Quarterly Review, Vol. XLI (1916)
• "The Care of Children and the Aged," The Catholic World, Vol. CIV (1916)
• "The Story of Organized Care of the Insane and Defectives," The Catholic World, Vol. CIV (1916)
• "Dr. John B. Murphy," The Catholic World, Vol. CIV (1916)
• "Luther and Social Service," The Catholic World, Vol. CIV (1917)
• "Brother Potamian," The Catholic World, Vol. CV (1917)
• "Herbert Spencer: A Fallen Idol," The Catholic World, Vol. CV (1917)
• "Utopia: Where Men Were Happy," The American Catholic Quarterly Review, Vol. XLII (1917)
• "Abbé Breuil and the Cave Men Artists," The Ecclesiastical Review, Vol. LVII (1917)
• "Superstitions Old and New," The Catholic World, Vol. CVI (1917)
• "Alcohol in Medicine Fifty Years Ago and Now," The Catholic World, Vol. CVI (1917)
• "The Dark Ages in America," The American Catholic Quarterly Review, Vol. XLIII (1918)
• "Notes as to Authorship of 'Peter Parley's Universal History'," The American Catholic Quarterly Review, Vol. XLIII (1918)
• "An Apostle of the Italians," The Catholic World, Vol. CVII (1918)
• "The Priest and Post-Mortem Examinations," The Ecclesiastical Review, Vol. LVIII (1918)
• "What Surgery Owes to Military Surgery: A Great Pioneer in Clinical Surgery," International Clinics, Vol. III, Twenty-Eighth Series (1918)
• "A Convert Scientist and His Work," The Catholic World, Vol. CVIII (1918)
• "Mediæval Science," The Catholic World, Vol. CIX (1919)
• "Twenty Historical 'Don'ts'." In: Catholic and Anti-Catholic History. New York: The America Press (1920)
• "Second-Hand History." In: Catholic and Anti-Catholic History. New York: The America Press (1920)
• "The Pilgrims and Popular Education," America, Vol. XXIV, No. 1 (1920)
• "New and Old Psychology," America, Vol. XXIV, No. 7 (1920)
• "Better Books in the Home," America, Vol. XXIV, No. 12 (1921)
• "The American Catholic Historical Association," America, Vol. XXIV, No. 13 (1921)
• "Early Irish Pilgrims," America, Vol. XXIV, No. 18 (1921)
• "A Papal Curiosity in New York," The Catholic World, Vol. CXIV (1921)
• "A Forerunner of Einstein," America, Vol. XXV, No. 9 (1921)
• "Catholic Relics in New York City," America, Vol. XXV, No. 4 (1921)
• "Conservative Eugenics and Race Betterment," America, Vol. XXV, No. 26 (1921)
• "The Church and Peace Movements in the Past," The American Catholic Quarterly Review, Vol. XLVII, No. 185 (1922)
• "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle—Science and Spiritism," America, Vol. XXVII, No. 2 (1922)
• "Spiritism Old and New," America, Vol. XXVII, No. 6 (1922)
• "The Ancient Pedigree of 'Social Service'," America, Vol. XXVII, No. 11 (1922)
• "Our Greatest American Women?," America, Vol. XXVII, No. 13 (1922)
• "Are Irish Catholics Dying Out in This Country?," America, Vol. XXVII, No. 16 (1922)
• "Catholic Bachelors and Old Maids," America, Vol. XXVII, No. 17 (1922)
• "The Educated Classes and Bogus Religions," The Catholic World, Vol. CXVI, No. 695 (1923)
• "Montaigne, the Believing Skeptic," The Catholic World, Vol. CXVII, No. 702 (1923)
• "Healing Religions in the United States," Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, Vol. XIII, No. 52 (1924)
• "John Quinn: Lawyer, Book-lover, Art Amateur," The Catholic World, Vol. CXX, No. 716 (1924)
• "Martin H. Glynn, First Catholic Governor of New York," The Catholic World, Vol. CXX, No. 719 (1924)
• "A Protestant View of a Catholic Scienyist," The Catholic World, Vol. CXXIII, No. 733 (1926)
• "A Cycle in Criminology," The Catholic World, Vol. CXXIII, No. 738 (1926)
• "Punishment vs. Reparation," The Sign, Vol. VI, No. 7 (1927)
• "Dr. Millikan and the Failure of Science?," The Catholic World, Vol. CXXV, No. 750 (1927)
• "Living Machinery," The Catholic World, Vol. CXXVI, No. 756 (1928)
• "Forget the Pope—No!," The Forum, Vol. LXXXII, No. 3 (1929)
• "Einstein and Freud," The Commonweal, Vol. 13, No. 8 (1930)
• "Stuttering and Left-Handedness," The Fortnightly Review, Vol. XXXVIII (1932)
• "Mediaeval Anticipation," The Commonweal, Vol. 16, No. 21 (1932)
• "Hysteria and Hypnotism," The Fortnightly Review, Vol. XL, No. 6 (1933)
• "Cures," The Fortnightly Review, Vol. XLI, No. 2 (1934)
• "Human Luminosity and Temperature," The Fortnightly Review, Vol. XLI, No. 8 (1934)
• "Catholic Contributions to the Ethical Sciences." In: Catholic Builders of the Nation. New York: Catholic Book Company (1935)
• "Gregor Mendel," The New Review, Vol. II (1935)
• "Life is Sacred," The Forum, Vol. XLIV, No. 6 (1935)
• "Dr. Lawrence F. Flick," The Commonweal, Vol. 28, No. 18 (1938)

Miscellany

• "Some Notes on the Bacteriology of Mumps," Medical Record, Vol. L (1896; with P.M. Mecray)
• "The Treatment of Catarrhal Icterus," International Clinic, Vol. II, Tenth Series (1900)
• "Winged Insects and their Larvae as Parasites of Man," International Clinics, Vol. IV, Eleventh Series (1902)
• "On the Use of Discarded Street Cars in the Open-Air Treatment of Tuberculosis," International Clinics, Vol. II, Sixteenth Series (1906)
• "The Struggle for Life and Peace," Proceedings of the National Arbitration and Peace Congress (1907)
• "Some Curiosities of Lead Poisoning," International Clinics, Vol. II (1908)
• "The Church and Copernicus," Letter to The New York Times (1908)
• "Occupations and So-called Rheumatic Pains," International Clinic, Vol. I ( 1909)
• "Physicians' Fees Down the Ages," International Clinics, Vol. IV, Twentieth-Series (1910)
• "The Mask of Diabetes," International Clinics, Vol. I, Twenty-Second Series (1912)
• "Simulants of Nervous Exhaustion," International Clinics, Vol. IV, Twenty-Second Series (1912)
• "Psychoneuroses in the Male," International Clinics, Vol. II, Twenty-Third Series (1913)
• "Neurotic Discomfort and the Law of Avalanche," International Clinics, Vol. IV, Twenty-Third Series (1913)
• "Insomnia: Foot Troubles, Rheumatism and Gout," International Clinics, Vol. II, Twenty-Fourth Series (1914)
• "Some Dangers of Obesity Cures," International Clinics, Vol. IV, Twenty-Fourth Series (1914)
• "Nervous Exhaustion," International Clinics, Vol. II, Thirtieth Series (1920)
• "Neuroses and Psychoneuroses and the Therapeutic Value of Food," International Clinics, Vol. III, Thirty-First Series (1921)
• "The Therapeutics of the Psychoneuroses," International Clinics, Vol. IV, Thirty-Second Series (1922)
• "Anesthesia." In: The Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. 1. New York: The Gilmary Society, Inc. (1936)

External links

• Works by James Joseph Walsh at Project Gutenberg
• Works by James Joseph Walsh at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• Works by James Joseph Walsh at Unz.com
• Works by James Joseph Walsh at The Online Books Page