Ralph Stockman

Prof Ralph Stockman FRSE LLD (1861–1946) was a Scottish professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics at Glasgow University. He was an expert on iron deficiency anaemia.

Life

He was born on 3 August 1861 at Wellington Street in Leith the son of William J. Stockman.[1] The family moved to 2 Bonnington Place in his youth.[2] He was educated at the Royal High School in Edinburgh then studied Medicine at Edinburgh University graduating MB ChB in 1882. He then did postgraduate studies at both Vienna and Strasbourg before returning to Edinburgh to obtain his doctorate (MD) in 1886.[3] He then moved to Glasgow to work at the Glasgow Western Infirmary and lecture at Glasgow University. In 1897 he was given a professorhip.

In 1888 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir Andrew Douglas Maclagan, Alexander Crum Brown, Sir German Sims Woodhead, and Sir Thomas Richard Fraser. In 1936 Glasgow awarded him an honorary doctorate (LLD).[4]

In later life he lived at 16 Newton Terrace (a side street near Sauchiehall Street) in central Glasgow.[5]

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

  1. ↑ Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1861
  2. ↑ Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1870
  3. ↑ http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH0248&type=P
  4. ↑ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
  5. ↑ Glasgow Post Office Directory 1910


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