A.
B. Arnold, M. D., whose office is in the new Chronicle Building, San
Francisco, has been a resident of California since 1888, and has been engaged
in the practice of medicine since 1848.
He was born near Stuttgart, Germany, in 1820 the son of J. M. Arnold,
who was for many years a merchant in Pennsylvania, and later of Baltimore,
Ohio, where he died in 1876. Our
subject received his early education in the College of Mercersburg,
Pennsylvania, where he remained several years.
He commenced the study of medicine in 1844, entering the medical
department of the Pennsylvania University, which he attended several
years. Later he entered and attended
the College of Physicians and Surgeons, where he graduated in 1848, after a
full course of four years, receiving his degree as Doctor of Medicine. He at once entered into the practice of
medicine in Baltimore, where he continued until 1888. In 1875 the Doctor was appointed Professor of Diseases of the
Nervous System for the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Baltimore, which
chair he held for fifteen years. On
taking the chair he made a special study of diseases of the nervous system, to
which he has devoted much of his time.
Dr.
Arnold published a treatise on “Diseases of the Nervous System” which has
lately undergone a second edition by the Bancroft Company of San
Francisco. It is a work especially
adapted for the use of medical students as well as general practitioners. He has also contributed largely to the
medical journals of the country during these years. Dr. Arnold has retired from the active practice of medicine, and
now only devotes himself to general consultations with the profession, and
especially on diseases of the nervous system.
Dr. Arnold was President of the section of general medicine of the Ninth
International Medical Congress, which met in Washington, District of Columbia,
in 1887. He is now one of the attending
physicians of the San Francisco Polyclinic.
Transcribed by
Donna L. Becker
Source: "The
Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 1, page 629, Lewis Publishing Co, 1892.
©
2004 Donna L. Becker.