James Finlayson (surgeon)

James Finlayson (22 November 1840 – 9 October 1906) was a Scottish surgeon, physician, and prolific writer on medical and historical topics.

[3] Finlayson was admitted a fellow of the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1871, and was successively its honorary librarian (1877–1901), visitor (1899), and president (1900–3).

[3] Finlayson, who was unmarried, died suddenly from apoplexy on 9 October 1906 at his residence, 2 Woodside Place, Glasgow; his remains were cremated at the Western Necropolis.

He covered the history of medicine, and gave a number of lectures at Glasgow under the title of Bibliographical Demonstrations on Hippocrates, Galen, Herophilus, and Erasistratus (1893–5), the substance of which he contributed to Janus, an international medical journal.

His major works were:[3] To John Marie Keating's Cyclopædia of the Diseases of Children (1889) Finlayson contributed the article "Diagnosis".