Abram Blumenthal Arnold, the son of Isaac and Hannah Blumenthal, was born
in Jebenhausen, Weurtemburg, Germany, February 4, 1820, and came to America in
1832-3.
After graduating from Mercersburg College, he studied medicine with R.
Lehwers, New York and took his first course of medical lectures at the
University of Pennsylvania in 1848. He received his M.D. at Washington
University, Baltimore.
His first practice was in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. From 1872 to 1877 he was
professor of the practice of medicine in Washington University; professor of
nervous diseases in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, from
1877 to 1879; from the last date until his death emeritus professor.
He was consulting physician to the Hebrew Hospital, Baltimore, retiring in
1892, and he was president of the Maryland Medical and Chirurgical Faculty,
1877-1878.
Arnold was the author of "Manual of Nervous Diseases," 170 pp.,
New York, 1855, and of "Circumcision," "New York Medical
Journal," 1866.
He married Ellen Dennis and had a daughter and three sons, one of whom was
J. Dennis Arnold, (1856-1919) a physician in San Francisco.
Dr. Arnold died in
San Francisco on March 28, 1904.
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