{{Short description|Scottish professor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Ralph Stockman | image = Ralph Stockmann. Photograph by T. & R. Annan & Sons Ltd. Wellcome M0014895.jpg | image_size = 200px | caption = Photograph by T. & R. Annan & Sons Ltd. | birth_date = {{Birth date|1861|8|3|df=yes}} | birth_place = Leith, Scotland | death_date = {{Death date and age|1946|2|27|1861|8|3|df=yes}} | death_place = Glasgow, Scotland | fields = Materia Medica, Therapeutics | workplaces = University of Glasgow, Glasgow Western Infirmary | education = * Royal High School, Edinburgh * University of Edinburgh (MB ChB, MD) * Postgraduate studies in Vienna and Strasbourg | known_for = Research on iron deficiency anaemia | honors = * Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1888) * Member of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh (1892) * Member of the Aesculapian Club (1928) * Honorary LLD, University of Glasgow (1936) }} '''Ralph Stockman''' (3 August 1861–27 February 1946) was a Scottish Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics at the University of Glasgow. He was an expert on iron deficiency anaemia.
==Life== Stockman was born on 3 August 1861 at Wellington Street in Leith the son of William J. Stockman.<ref>Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1861</ref> The family moved to 2 Bonnington Place in his youth, soon after the birth of his younger brother, Stewart Stockman.<ref>Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1870</ref>
Ralph was educated at the Royal High School in Edinburgh then studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh graduating with a 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH0248&type=P|title=University of Glasgow :: Story :: Biography of Ralph Stockman|website=universitystory.gla.ac.uk|access-date=2019-05-16}}</ref> 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 Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir Andrew Douglas Maclagan, Alexander Crum Brown, Sir German Sims Woodhead, and Sir Thomas Richard Fraser. In 1892 he was elected a member of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh<ref>{{Cite book|title=Minute Books of the Harveian Society|url=http://archives.rcpe.ac.uk/calmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=DEP%2fHAR%2f1%2f1%2f1&pos=17|location= Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://wellcomecollection.org/works/ww4e59xv|title= A Record of the Edinburgh Harveian Society|last=Watson Wemyss|first=Herbert Lindesay|publisher=T&A Constable, Edinburgh|year=1933|language=en}}</ref> and in 1928 he was elected a member of the Aesculapian Club.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Minute Books of the Aesculapian Club|url=http://archives.rcpe.ac.uk/calmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=DEP%2fAEC%2f1&pos=2|location= Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh}}</ref> In 1936 the University of Glasgow awarded him an honorary doctorate (LLD).<ref>{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|archive-date=4 March 2016|access-date=4 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
In later life he lived at 16 Newton Terrace, a side street near Sauchiehall Street, in central Glasgow.<ref>Glasgow Post Office Directory 1910</ref>
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)
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