Sacred
to the memory of
PATRICK NIMMO
merchant Dundee
who died march 1817
HELEN MACLEAN
his wife who died September 1856
and their daughter
HELEN who died May 1846
Also
PATRICK NIMMO. MD.
who died 11th July 1855
Also their children HELEN, JAMES and WILLIAM
Who died in infancy, ??
PATRICK NIMMO, M.D., who was a native of Dundee, laboured most
successfully for upwards of fifty years in alleviating the sufferings of his
fellow-creatures. After being some years in the East Lothian Cavalry Regiment,
he established himself in Dundee, first in partnership with his apprentice
master, Dr Robert Stewart, and then with Sir Alexander Douglass. He afterwards
practised on his own account, and enjoyed an extensive and respectable practice
in the town and neighbourhood, until within seven or eight years of his death,
when age and increasing infirmities obliged him in a great measure to relinquish
it. He was one of the first surgeons appointed to the Dundee Royal Infirmary,
and for more than thirty years assisted much in raising and maintaining the
professional
reputation of that benevolent institution. He only retired from it on the death
of Dr Ramsay, about 1835, when he was appointed to succeed him as physician to
the Lunatic Asylum, in which office he continued till his death. Dr Nimmo was
always regarded by the profession and his patients as one of the ablest
physicians. As a surgeon, he was held in high estimation ; his operations were
very expert, and in general successfully performed. He died on
July 11, 1855.
Dundee 26 January 1857 permission granted to the family of the
late Dr P Nimmo to remove old headstone to erect a new one in its place, see
minute of the Hospital Committee of this date.
Source:RT
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