Sampson Gamgee, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetSampson Gamgee
British surgeon
Date of Birth: 17-Apr-1828
Place of Birth: Livorno, Tuscany, Italy
Date of Death: 18-Sep-1886
Profession: surgeon
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Sampson Gamgee
- 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.
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