1. Sanford Morris Rosenthal was born in Albany, Georgia.
14 Facts About Sanford Rosenthal
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Sanford Rosenthal received a medical degree at Vanderbilt University in 1920, and completed a residency and internship at Boston City Hospital.
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Sanford Rosenthal worked in the Department of Pharmacology at McGill University in Montreal, Canada from 1925 to 1927.
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Finally, in 1928, he joined the United States Public Health Service in Washington, DC Dr Rosenthal was Chief of the Laboratory of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases for 13 years before retiring in 1961.
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Sanford Rosenthal attained the rank of medical director in the USPHS Commissioned Officer Corps.
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Sanford Rosenthal was an author on over 110 papers between 1922 and 1975.
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Sanford Rosenthal's first published paper provided a method for testing the health of the liver.
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Sanford Rosenthal showed that the rate at which the liver metabolizes an ingested dye can be used to quantify how well this organ functions.
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Sanford Rosenthal's continued work on liver function tests resulted in the use of bromsulphthalein, which remains in use.
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Sanford Rosenthal discovered that sodium formaldehyde sulfoxylate was an antidote for mercury poisoning.
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Sanford Rosenthal discovered that the replacement of the salts that are in the secreted plasma is the key to a successful and simplified treatment.
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Sanford Rosenthal's research group demonstrated that this therapy was an effective alternative to the traditional treatment using intravenous injections of whole blood or plasma.
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Sanford Rosenthal collaborated in research on the role of polyamines in the function of viral DNA.
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Sanford Rosenthal was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1979.