James Alexander Lindsay (physician)

James Alexander Lindsay FRCP (20 June 1856,[1] in Fintona, County Tyrone – 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.

His lectures also were precise and old-fashioned, delivered at dictation speed throughout, to provide notes for future reference, as was common until good textbooks became more freely available in the 1950s.

[1]Gifted with a mind at once scholarly and judicial, Lindsay believed that the teacher's function was to instruct the student how to learn and how to think.

He was prominent in the cultural life of Belfast and found his recreation in music, golf, mountaineering and watching cricket.

[2]He was a member of the Aristotleian Society, and the author of valuable medical treatises, and of many contributions to the professional and philosophical journals.