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词条 Sampson Gamgee
释义

  1. Life

  2. Publications

  3. Recognition

  4. Family

  5. References

  6. External links

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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.

Life

He was the son of Joseph Gamgee (1801–1895), a veterinary surgeon in Leghorn, Italy, and his wife, Mary Ann West (1799-1873). 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.[1]

In 1868 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being Sir James Young Simpson.

In 1873 he founded the Birmingham Hospital Saturday Fund which raised money for various hospitals in Birmingham from overtime earnings given by workers on nominated Hospital Saturdays. It was the first such fund to raise money in this way for multiple hospitals. Sampson was also the first president of the Birmingham Medical Institute.

In 1881 he retired from active hospital life due to a Haematuria infection. In 1886 his health further worsened during a trip to Dartmouth where he fell fracturing his right femur at its head. He died of Bright's disease in Birmingham on 18 September 1886.[2]

Publications

  • Researches in Pathological Anatomy and Clinical Surgery (1856)
  • On the Treatment of Fractures of the Limbs (1871)
  • A Lecture on Ovariotomy (1871)
  • On the Treatment of Wounds and Fractures (1883)

Recognition

He gave his name (indirectly, via the tissue) to the hobbit Sam Gamgee in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.[3]

There is a blue plaque commemorating him on the Birmingham Repertory Theatre and a library is dedicated to him in the Birmingham Medical Institute.

Family

He married Marion Parker, daughter of an Edgbaston vet, in 1886. They had two sons and two daughters. One son, Leonard Parker Gamgee became a renowned surgeon of Birmingham and his nephew (son of his sister Fanny Gamgee) was Prof Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860–1948).

References

1. ^{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0 902 198 84 X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf}}
2. ^{{cite journal|title=Sampson Gamgee: a great Birmingham surgeon|first=H M|last=Kapadia|date=1 February 2002|publisher=|journal=Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine|volume=95|issue=2|pages=96–100|accessdate=|pmid=11823557|pmc=1279323}}
3. ^{{cite book|last1=Humphrey|first1=Steve|title=Zeromotor Man: The Victorian who invented the ice-rink and sold perpetual motion to the US Navy|date=29 August 2016|publisher=QP Books|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Zeromotor-Man-Victorian-invented-perpetual-ebook/dp/B01L9K4MWG/|accessdate=26 October 2017}}
  • 65 Years' History of the Birmingham Saturday Holiday Fund 1873–1938, Journal Printing Office, Cannon Passage, Birmingham, 1938

External links

  • Biography and bibliography
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