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GARROD, Sir Alfred Baring (1819 – 1907)

GARROD, Sir Alfred Baring (1819 – 1907)

1819 – 1907

3 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1846 CE–1848 CE

#3912.1

Several specimens of cystine exhibited, with the particulars of two cases in which this deposit occurred in the urine.

GARROD, Sir Alfred Baring (1819 – 1907)
GARROD, Sir Alfred Baring (1819 – 1907)

Cystinuria described.

1848 CE

#4495

Observations on certain pathological conditions of the blood and urine in gout, rheumatism and Bright’s disease.

GARROD, Sir Alfred Baring (1819 – 1907)
GARROD, Sir Alfred Baring (1819 – 1907)

The “thread test” in gout was introduced by Garrod. Later he wrote more fully on gout and rheumatism (see No. 4497).

1859 CE

#4497

The nature and treatment of gout and rheumatic gout.

GARROD, Sir Alfred Baring (1819 – 1907)
GARROD, Sir Alfred Baring (1819 – 1907)

Garrod was the leading authority of his time on gout, which he separated from other forms of arthritis by his discovery of excess of uric acid in the blood of gouty sufferers. He gave to rheumatoid arthritis its prese…