gamgee tissue

(ˈɡæmdʒiː)

a type of dressing for wounds

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Birmingham surgeon Dr Joseph Sampson Gamgee invented the surgical dressing called Gamgee Tissue - cotton wool between two layers of gauze - in 1880.

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According to JRR Tolkien's published personal letters, the author took the hobbit's name from the Birmingham colloquialism for cotton wool; the soft and dry Gamgee Tissue having become widely relied upon in European medicine following its success in combating infection during the Crimean War, in which Gamgee tended the battlefield wounded in his hospital in Malta.

Fellow medics; One of the country's oldest medical societies isevolving to meet the needs of today's health practitioners, finds Jenni Ameghino

He tended the injured in the Crimean War, and created a kind of dry dressing for their wounds -known as Gamgee tissue -to counter the risk of infection.

Archive: The Hobbit of good health; Chris Upton discovers that hospital service pioneer Joseph Sampson Gamgee found fame via an unexpected path whenTolkien named a selfless Hobbit after him in Lord of the Rings

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