Dr Ralph Stockman MD LLD (3 August 1861–27 February 1946) was a Scottish Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics at the

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. He was an expert on iron deficiency anaemia.

Life

Stockman was born on 3 August 1861 at Wellington Street in

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the son of William J. Stockman. The family moved to 2 Bonnington Place in his youth, soon after the birth of his younger brother, Stewart Stockman. Ralph was educated at the Royal High School in

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then studied medicine at the

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graduating with a

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in 1882. He then did postgraduate studies at both

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and

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before returning to Edinburgh to obtain his doctorate (MD) in 1886. He then moved to Glasgow to work at the Glasgow Western Infirmary and lecture at the University of Glasgow. In 1897 he was given a professorship. In 1888 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were Sir Andrew Douglas Maclagan,

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, Sir German Sims Woodhead, and Sir Thomas Richard Fraser. In 1928 he was elected a member of the

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. In 1936 the University of Glasgow awarded him an honorary doctorate (LLD). In later life he lived at 16 Newton Terrace, a side street near

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, in central

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.Glasgow Post Office Directory 1910 He retired in 1936 and died on 27 February 1946.

Publications

*''Report on Coca Alkoloids'' (1889) *''Pharmacology of Morphine and its Derivatives'' (1890) *''Ingestion and Excretion of Iron in Health'' (1897) *''The Action of Arsenic on Bone Marrow and Blood'' (1898) *''Inflammarory Hyperplasia'' (1904) *''Rheumatism and Arthritis'' (1920)

References

1861 births 1946 deaths Sportspeople from Leith Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Academics of the University of Glasgow Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh {{Scotland-med-bio-stub Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh