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Evelyn Marion Hickmans was active between 1905 and 1953. In 1951 she became internationally renowned for work of abnormal blood chemistry to childhood diseases. she worked with her cousin,Leonard Parsons in his investigations in Children's Hospital, Birmingham. Evelyn undertook chemical analysis', then became. in 1951 a fellow researcher was visited by a mother of 17 month old baby girl called Sheila who was diagnosed with phenylketonuria (PKU) the mother refused to accept the fact that nothing could be done for her daughter and because of her persistence, Bickel, Hickmans and John Gerrard produced a devised diet low in phenylanaline. Which the girl then recovered.`