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Dr Abram Blumenthal Arnold

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Dr Abram Blumenthal Arnold

Birth
Göppingen, Landkreis Göppingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Death
28 Mar 1904 (aged 84)
San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA
Burial
Colma, San Mateo County, California, USA Add to Map
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Kelly, Howard A.; Burrage, Walter L., eds. (1920). "Arnold, Abram Blumenthal". American Medical Biographies. Baltimore: The Norman, Remington Company.

Abram B. Arnold, the son of Isaac and Hannah Blumenthal, was born in Jebenhausen, Wuertemburg, Germany, February 4, 1820, and came to America in 1832–3. After graduating at Mercersburg College he studied medicine with R. Lehwers, New York, took his first course of medical lectures at the University of Pennsylvania in 1848 and received his M. D. at Washington University, Baltimore. His first practice was in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. From 1872 to 1877 he was professor of 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 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. xxxix.

He married Ellen Dennis and had a daughter and three sons, one of who was J. Dennis Arnold, a physician of San Francisco.

He died at San Francisco, March 28, 1904.
Kelly, Howard A.; Burrage, Walter L., eds. (1920). "Arnold, Abram Blumenthal". American Medical Biographies. Baltimore: The Norman, Remington Company.

Abram B. Arnold, the son of Isaac and Hannah Blumenthal, was born in Jebenhausen, Wuertemburg, Germany, February 4, 1820, and came to America in 1832–3. After graduating at Mercersburg College he studied medicine with R. Lehwers, New York, took his first course of medical lectures at the University of Pennsylvania in 1848 and received his M. D. at Washington University, Baltimore. His first practice was in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. From 1872 to 1877 he was professor of 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 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. xxxix.

He married Ellen Dennis and had a daughter and three sons, one of who was J. Dennis Arnold, a physician of San Francisco.

He died at San Francisco, March 28, 1904.


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