Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2194

ARCHIBALD EDWARD GARROD (1857-1936) Inborn errors of metabolism. Henry Growde 1909 vii, 168, 24 pp. 18.9 cm.

Garrod received his medical education at London's St. Bartholomew's Hospital and served at other London hospitals until 1903 when he was made assistant physician at St. Bartholomew's. Garrod was made physician at St. Bartholomew's in 1912, served on Malta during World War I, and succeeded Osler (see No. 2120 ff.) as Regius professor of medicine at Oxford in 1920. Although it was known that an individual's constitution could have an effect on the incidence of disease, it was in this work that Garrod demonstrated that variation in function, and sometimes structure, can result in genetically based human diseases such as albinism, alkaptonuria, cystinuria, and pentosuria. The book was based on his Croonian lectures delivered at the Royal College of Physicians of London and published in Lancet during 1908.

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Cited references: Garrison-Morton 3921

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