James J. Walsh

James J. Walsh (1865–1942) was an American physician, medical historian and Catholic apologist. Born in Pennsylvania and educated at Fordham and the University of Pennsylvania, he studied in Paris, Vienna and Berlin and became dean and professor of nervous diseases and of the history of medicine at the Fordham University School of Medicine. His books, among them The Thirteenth, Greatest of Centuries, The Popes and Science, Makers of Modern Medicine and Psychotherapy, defended the record of the medieval church in learning and science and argued for the role of mind in healing. He received the Laetare Medal in 1916.