PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - David J Weatherall TI - The centenary of Garrod's Croonian lectures AID - 10.7861/clinmedicine.8-3-309 DP - 2008 Jun 01 TA - Clinical Medicine PG - 309--311 VI - 8 IP - 3 4099 - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/8/3/309.short 4100 - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/8/3/309.full SO - Clin Med2008 Jun 01; 8 AB - Archibald Garrod's Croonian lectures, Inborn errors of metabolism, were delivered at the Royal College of Physicians in June 1908. Although their significance remained dormant for many years, and is still not fully appreciated, they are now recognised as the foundation of medical genetics.