James Alexander Lindsay (20 June 1856, in

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– 14 December 1931, in Belfast) was a British physician and professor of medicine, known for his collection ''Medical axioms, aphorisms, and clinical memoranda'' (1923, London, H. K. Lewis & Co. Ltd.).

Biography

After education at the

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and at the

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, James Alexander Lindsay matriculated at Queen's College Belfast, where he graduated in 1877 B.A. and in 1878 M.A. in ancient classics. In 1882 he obtained the M.D. and M.Ch. degrees in the

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/ref> After two years of working in clinics in London, in Paris, and in Vienna, he returned to Belfast. At the

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, he was appointed in 1884 assistant physician and in 1888 full physician, retiring as consulting physician in 1921. From 1919 to 1927 he was chair of the board of management of the Royal Victoria Hospital. From 1899 to 1924 he held the chair of medicine in

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. In the chair of medicine he was preceded by James Cuming (1833–1899) and succeeded by William Willis Dalziel Thomson. In 1897–1898 Lindsay was president of the Ulster Medical Society. In 1903 he was elected FRCP. In 1909 he delivered the

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. His nephew, Royal Navy Captain D. C. Lindsay, was High Sheriff of Belfast for the year 1931. J. A. Lindsay and his nephew were descendants of James Lindsay, who fled from religion persecution in Ayrshire in 1678.

Selected publications

Articles

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Books

*with James Cuthbert Lindsay: * *; 2nd edition 1906 *

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lindsay, James Alexander 1856 births 1931 deaths People educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution People educated at Methodist College Belfast Alumni of Queen's University Belfast Academics of Queen's University Belfast 19th-century British medical doctors 20th-century British medical doctors Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians