General Hospital," two volumes, and a "History of the Albany City Hospital."
Arnold, Abram Blumenthal (1820–1904)
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.
Arnold, Jonathan (1741–1798)
Jonathan Arnold was born in Providence, Rhode Island, December 14, 1741, received a common school education and began to study medicine under a preceptor. At the outbreak of the Revolution he was a member of the General Assembly of Rhode Island and had the honor of drafting the act repudiating English rule in that colony. He became a surgeon in the Continental army. When the French fleet arrived in 1780 at Providence, Arnold and Dr. Isaac Senter conferred with Dr. Craik, sent by Washington, regarding the care of the sick. He was a member of the Old Congress in 1782–84. When the war was over he took up his abode in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, and was judge of the Orange County Court from 1782 until his death which occurred February 2, 1798. His son, Lemuel Hastings, was elected to Congress and was governor of the state of Rhode Island in 1831 and 1832.
Arnold, Richard Dennis (1808–1876)
Richard Dennis Arnold was born in Savannah, Georgia, August 19, 1808, the son of Captain Joseph Arnold, a native of Rhode Island, and of Eliza Dennis of New Brunswick, N. J. He was educated at first by private tutors, then went to Princeton where he graduated S. B. in 1826 and received an A. M. in 1829. He began the study of medicine with William R. Waring, of Savannah, then entered the University of Pennsylvania, graduating M. D. in 1830, his thesis being "Asthenia, or Debility."
He returned to Savannah to practise. In 1833 with W. H. Bullock he began publishing the Daily Georgian, but withdrew in 1834. In 1835 he became one of the physicians to the Savannah Poor-House and Hospital, to which he was then annually appointed for over thirty years.
Dr. Arnold was one of the original members of the American Medical Association and served on the committee which drafted the "Code of Ethics," adopted in 1847. He was active in organizing the Georgia State Medical Association in 1849 and was its president in 1851, delivering an address on "Reciprocal Duties of Physicians and the Public to Each Other." In 1850, the Savannah Medical College was founded and Arnold became professor of the theory and practice of medicine.
A strong advocate of medical organization and reform, and of "improved sanitary regulations to be enforced by city government," an ample supply of fresh water was secured for Savannah largely through his persistent efforts. For over thirty-five years he was president of the board of water commissioners. He served in the legislature of Georgia and was alderman in the city council; he was mayor in the years 1841–43, in 1851, 1852–1859, 1860, and again in 1863, serving until the close of the Civil War.
He wrote: "....Relation of Bilious and Yellow Fever" (1856); "Dengue, or Break-Bone Fever as it appeared in Savannah....1850" (1858); "The Identity of Dengue, or Break-Bone Fever and Yellow Fever (1858–59)."
He died of tuberculosis, July 10, 1876, in the same room where he had been born.
Asch, Morris Joseph (1833–1902)
Morris Joseph Asch, New York laryngologist, was born on July 4, 1833, and was the second son of Joseph M. and Clara Ulman Asch. His early education was mainly under
