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Thomas Rosenthal

Thomas Rosenthal

Magical Thinking and the Knowledge Gaps We Fill

The miasmic theory held that rotting organic material generated smelly bad air that carried disease from swamps and ghetto slums to humans…

5 min readMay 5, 2024

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Thomas Rosenthal

Dipsomania: A Manic Thirst for Booze

Nineteenth-century village physicians observed their patients on house calls, on village streets, and occasionally in their offices. They…

6 min readDec 1, 2023

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Thomas Rosenthal

Man versus Men and Woman versus Women

The men had it. At least that is what Thomas Carlyle said in his 1829 essay, Signs of the Times. Carlyle proposed men were guided by…

5 min readAug 8, 2023

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Man versus Men and Woman versus Women

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Thomas Rosenthal

How Victorian Doctors Learned Midwifery

Throughout history, wise women sought assistance from more experienced women during labor, delivery, and the immediate postpartum period…

6 min readMay 6, 2023

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Thomas Rosenthal

A Widow’s Melancholia, 1834

Caring is a window to the human soul, theirs and ours.

10 min readOct 28, 2022

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A Widow’s Melancholia, 1834

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Thomas Rosenthal

Did Village Doctors or Jenner Discover the First Vaccine?

In Leviticus, the Bible describes garments spreading disease. The mummy of Egyptian pharaoh Ramses V (died: 1156 BC) bears the scars of…

6 min readAug 23, 2022

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Did Village Doctors or Jenner Discover the First Vaccine?

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Thomas Rosenthal

Bloodletting Cures, or Does It?

Prior to the twentieth century and going back to the ancient Egyptians, bloodletting was so common that the lancet and the barber’s pole…

4 min readJul 7, 2022

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Thomas Rosenthal

New York Doctor, Wife Perish: Cholera

In 1832, when municipalities relied on free ranging pigs to clean the streets of garbage, horse manure, and morning-pot dumps, Asiatic…

5 min readFeb 25, 2022

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New York Doctor, Wife Perish: Cholera

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Thomas Rosenthal

Thomas Rosenthal

A semi-retirered family doctor/geriatrician and educator, Rosenthal is the author of a medical historical novel Bloodletting and Germs.

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