Francis Brodie Imlach

Francis Brodie Imlach FRCSEd (1819-1891) was a Scottish pioneer of modern dentistry, and the first person to use chloroform on a dental patient.

He helped to raise the profile of dentistry from a back street trade to full professional status.

[6] Whilst James Young Simpson is credited with the first use of chloroform on a human, he did not invent it.

On the afternoon of 11 November 1847 he used it to help extract a tooth of fellow dentist, James Darsie Morrison.

He is buried on the southern lower terrace of Dean Cemetery, towards its eastern end.