Sampson Gamgee

Joseph Gamgee

FRSE
Joseph Gamgee; FRSE
Born	17 April 1828; Livorno, Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Died	18 September 1886 (aged 58); Birmingham, England
Nationality	British
Occupation	Surgeon
Known for	Founding the Birmingham Hospital Saturday Fund Inventing Gamgee Tissue
Relatives	John Gamgee (brother); Dr Arthur Gamgee (brother); D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, (nephew);

Dr Joseph Sampson Gamgee, MRCS, FRSE (17 April 1828, Livorno, Grand Duchy of Tuscany – 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.

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