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Alexander Nasmyth


Alexander Nasmyth
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Born 1789
Died 1849
Occupation medical
Society Membership
membership ESL Ordinary Fellow
left 1846.11.07 withdraws
elected_ESL 1844.05.17
societies Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society
Royal College of Surgeons


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for obit. see Remarks on the Late Dr. Alexander Nasmyth, Made at a Meeting of the American Society of Dental Surgeons, Held in Baltimore, March 26th, 1850 in Am J Dent Sci. 1850 Apr; 10(3): 145–161.

Scotchman by birth. Brother Robert Nasmyth of Edinburgh.
He rendered professional aid to his Royal Highness, Prince Albert. Queen Victoria appointed him her own Surgeon-Dentist - took care of the royal children's teeth.
Prostrated by an attack of apoplexy, attended by Sir James Clarke, Her Majesty's Physician. Lived for two more years in an enfeebled state. Went to Malvern. Died 3 Aug. 1849 in 60th year of his age

Publications

External Publications

Jan, 1839. The structure, physiology, and pathology of the persistent, capsular investments and pulps of the teeth.

Researches on the development, structure and diseases of the teeth. 1839

Aug. 1839, Investigations into the structure of fossil teeth, &c.
Investigation into the development and organization of dental tissues &c.
Investigations into the structure of the epithelium

ON THE FORMATION OF THE MOUTH, AND THE STRUCTURE OF RECENT AND FOSSIL TEETH, By ALEXANDER NASMYTH. ROYAL INSTITUTION. Friday, April 10, 1840. in the Lancet VOLUME 34, ISSUE 869, P172-175, APRIL 25, 1840

His widow put together and published his intended Odontological work

House Publications

On the Human Mouth . read 23 apr 1845 in Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal vol. 40 p. 161

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