The Biographical Dictionary of America/Arnold, Abraham B.

ARNOLD, ABRAHAM B., physician, was born at Jebenhausen, Wurtemburg, Feb. 4, 1820. He came to America when fourteen years of age, and entered the college at Mercersburg, Pa., where he was graduated in 1838. He then studied medicine in New York city, attending at the same time the lectures of the medical department of the university of Pennsylvania. He was graduated from the medical department of the Washington university at Baltimore in 1848. He then established himself in practice in Baltimore, and in 1872 was elected professor of the theory and practice of medicine in the medical department of Washington university, and when this school was consolidated with the college of physicians and surgeons in 1877 he was appointed to the chair of clinical medicine, and diseases of the nervous system. In 1877 he was elected president of the medical and chirurgical faculty of Maryland. He was a delegate to the medical congress held at Philadelphia in 1876, and also a member of the American medical association.