Sir Archibald Garrod, K.C.M.G., F.R.S

A ECHIBALD GARROD, who died at the age of seventy-eight years on March 28 last, was a physician to whom the chemical aspects of pathology and clinical medicine made a special appeal. His father, Sir Alfred Garrod, M.D., F.R.S., had the same tastes. He was deeply interested in chemistry as a science, and though professional calls left little leisure for these pursuits, delighted in laboratory experiments. As many will remember, Alfred Garrod was the first to give a convincing demonstration of the presence of uric acid in the blood of gouty patients. This was in 1848, and his son was able to claim with pride that it involved the first biochemical observation of the kind made on the living human body. These paternal interests may have awakened those of the son, though in the latter love of chemistry seems to have been innate.