ALFRED BARING GARROD

Abstract

Gout and Garrod have been linked in medical literature for more than a century. This distinguished London physician, born in 1819 at Ipswich, identified uric acid as a normal constituent of the serum of healthy persons and devised a method for detecting its increased concentration in gouty subjects. Alfred attended the local grammar school and, after an apprenticeship with Mr. Charles Hammond, surgeon to the East Suffolk Hospital, entered University College Hospital, London, where he received the MD degree in 1843. He placed first in the examinations and was awarded the Galen medal for botany by the Society of Apothecaries. Loyalty to the University College Hospital continued in his postgraduate years, and he enjoyed the ascending progression of responsibility, beginning as assistant physician and ending as full physician and professor of therapeutics and clinical medicine. His "Observations on Certain Pathological Conditions of the Blood and Urine, in Gout, Rheumatism, and

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