Joseph Gamgee FRSE | |
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| Born | 17 April 1828 |
| Died | 18 September 1886 (aged 58) Birmingham, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Surgeon |
| Known for | Founding the Birmingham Hospital Saturday Fund
Inventing Gamgee Tissue |
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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.