Archibald Garrod was a physician whose innovative work in clinical medicine and chemistry led him to discover a new class of human disease based on hereditary factors. A pioneer in biochemistry, Garrod stressed the chemical uniqueness of each person....

1857-1936 British physician who introduced the concept of "inborn errors of metabolism" with his report on alcaptonuria in 1902. The urine of babies with alcaptonuria darkens when exposed to air because it contains homogentisic acid....

1857-1936 English physician who conducted pioneering studies of genetic diseases, which he referred to as "inborn errors of metabolism." Garrod concluded that these disorders were the results of an inherited alteration in some metabolic...

Sir Archibald Edward Garrod was an English physician who pioneered the field of inborn errors of metabolism. He was born on November 25 1857, in London, and died on March 28 1936, in Cambridge. Archibald was the fourth son of Sir Alfred Baring Garrod, a...