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= Evelyn Hickmans =

Who was she?
Her real name Evelyn Marion Hickmans and she was born in Wolverhampton in 1883 until her death in. She obtained a '''B.Sc. at the University of Birmingham in 1905 and a M.Sc. in 1906'''. Evelyn Hickmas was in the field of blood chemistry. Blood chemistry testing is finding the numerous chemical substances found in the blood. The analysis of these substances will provide clues to the functioning of the major body systems.

Her Notability: There is no record of her from 1906 till 1919 apart from an unsuccessful application for a Demonstratorship at Bedford at 1906. From 1919 till 1922 she was a Lecturer in the Household Science Department of the University of Toronto, Canada then returned to England in 1923.
 * Awarded the John Scott Medal.
 * Head of Children's Diseases Department in the Children's Hospital, Birmingham.

Her work
Hickmans' cousin, Leonardo Parsons was a Professor specializing in children's diseases at the Children's Hospital, Birmingham, asked is she would help him with investigations. A week later she was requested to undertake blood chemical analyses for the hospital. She did this, being appointed the Head of the Department. Between 1924 and 1956 she authored and co-authored 13 publications in a wide range of studies. Mostly on the study of the relationship of abnormal blood chemistry to childhood disease. In 1951 she became internationally renowned. Hickmans, Horst Bickel and John Gerrard devised a low in phenylanaline for a girl who was diagnosed as suffering from phenylketonuria. Her mother refused to accept that nothing could be done and for her persistance together they made the diet. The girl became better and recovered because of the synthetic diet they had designed for her. Their discovery was published in 1954 and has been considered so important that it was included in a journal on the first page. The three researchers received the John Scott Medal for their contributions in 1962 for their work on the methods of controlling phenylketonuria. Hickmans retired in 1953.