Robert Nasmyth FRCSEd, FRSE was a Scottish dental surgeon from Edinburgh who was Surgeon-Dentist to Queen Victoria in Scotland.
23 Facts About Robert Nasmyth
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Robert Nasmyth was President of the Odonto-Chirurgical Society of Scotland and was one of the founders of the Edinburgh Dental Dispensary, which would evolve into the Edinburgh Dental Hospital and School.
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Robert Nasmyth was educated at the Royal High School in Edinburgh.
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Robert Nasmyth then served under Barclay for three sessions as assistant in physiology and anatomy.
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Robert Nasmyth then went to London where he became assistant to John Fuller, a dentist in Hatton Garden.
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Robert Nasmyth set up practice as a dentist at 21, St Andrew Square in Edinburgh's New Town.
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Robert Nasmyth's innovations included a cap splint, described by Liston in his textbook Practical Surgery.
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Robert Nasmyth gained a reputation for his technique of gold fillings for dental cavities.
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Dr Henry A Dewar, a Boston dentist wrote to Robert Nasmyth asking that he provide details of the technique which he used to fill cavities.
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Robert Nasmyth gave a detailed reply on 5 August 1838 and this was published in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal later that year.
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Robert Nasmyth maintained his friendship with Nasmyth over many years and in 1835 Goodsir took over Nasmyth's large Edinburgh practice during the latter's absence.
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Robert Nasmyth was one of relatively few dentists experienced in this technique in Britain at that time.
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Robert Nasmyth was a founder member of the Royal Odonto-Chirurgical Society of Scotland.
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In 1835 Robert Nasmyth was elected a member of the Aesculapian Club.
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In 1839, Robert Nasmyth was appointed Surgeon-Dentist to the Queen in Scotland.
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Robert Nasmyth was one of the earliest office-bearers of the Odontological Society of London, having been made Vice-President in 1857.
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Robert Nasmyth was the first president of the Royal Odonto-Chirurgical Society of Scotland.
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Robert Nasmyth had been brought up by an uncle, whose bookbinding business he entered, but when that failed became, at the age of 33, a dental apprentice to his younger brother Robert.
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Robert Nasmyth was elected a foundation Fellow of the RCS in 1844.
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Robert Nasmyth married Mary Lockhart Jobson was born on 1797 and on 27 October 1819.
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In later life Robert Nasmyth lived at No 5, Charlotte Square, regarded as one of the most prestigious addresses in Edinburgh, close to his colleague and friend from student days Professor James Syme who lived at No 9.
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Robert Nasmyth died at home following a period of ill-health on 12 May 1870.
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Robert Nasmyth is buried on the north wall of Dean Cemetery in western Edinburgh, backing onto the first north extension.