Joseph Sampson Gamgee
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Joseph Gamgee FRSE |
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| Born |
April 17, 1828 Leghorn, Italy |
| Died | September 18, 1886 (aged 58) Birmingham, England |
| Cause of death | Bright's disease |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Surgeon |
| Known for |
Founding the Birmingham Hospital Saturday Fund
Inventing Gamgee Tissue |
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Inventing Gamgee Tissue
Dr Joseph Sampson Gamgee, MRCS, FRSE (17 April 1828, Livorno, Italy – 18 September 1886) was a surgeon at the Queen's Hospital (later the General Hospital) in Birmingham, England. He pioneered aseptic surgery (having once shared lodgings with Joseph Lister), and, in 1880 invented Gamgee Tissue, an absorbent cotton wool and gauze surgical dressing.
He was the son of Joseph Gamgee (1801-1895), a veterinary surgeon in Leghorn, Italy, and his wife, Mary West. He was the sibling of Dr John Gamgee, inventor and Professor of Anatomy and Physiology at Dick Veterinary College, Edinburgh and Dr Arthur Gamgee. Sampson studied at the Royal Veterinary College, London.
He obtained a post as House Surgeon at University College Hospital in London. He then served as a surgeon in the British-Italian Legion during the Crimean War. On his return in 1857 he took on the post of Surgeon at Queen's Hospital in Birmingham.
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