Medico-Social Management of Inherited Metabolic Disease - A Monograph Derived from The Proceedings of the Thirteenth Symposium of The Society for the Study of Inborn Errors of Metabolism

The study of inherited metabolic disease became a subject of more than academic interest in 1953 when Bickel, Gerrard and Hickmans dis­ covered that the totally disabling consequences of phenylketonuria could be prevented if treatment was instituted in the first months of life.