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	Joseph Sampson Gamgee (www.whonamedit.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Joseph Sampson Gamgee was the son of a British veterinary surgeon from Edinburgh who practised in Livorno (Leghorn), Italy.
		Gamgee worked for a period as a surgeon at University College Hospital, and then tended the wounded from the Crimean War (1853-1856) at the Anglo-Italian Hospital in Malta.
		Gamgee was interested in all hospital matters and is remembered for his great efforts to improve hospital conditions, and occasioned the building of a new hospital wing.
	www.whonamedit.com /doctor.cfm/2792.html (685 words)

	Sampson Gamgee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dr Joseph Sampson Gamgee, MRCS, FRSE (born 17 April 1828, Livorno, Italy; died 18 September 1886) was a surgeon at the Queen's Hospital (later the General Hospital) in Birmingham, England.
		He was the son of Joseph Gamgee, a veterinary surgeon and the sibling of Dr John Gamgee, inventor and Professor of Anatomy and Physiology at Dick Veterinary College, Edinburgh and Dr Arthur Gamgee, Fullerian Professor of Physiology and Comparative Anatomy at The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London.
		Sampson's son Dr Leonard Parker Gamgee was also a renowned surgeon of Birmingham and his nephew (son of his sister Fanny Gamgee) was Prof Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860-1948).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sampson_Gamgee (202 words)

	Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister Summary
		Joseph Lister, born in Upton, Essex, the son of a London wine merchant, developed antiseptic surgery, saving innumerable patients from the dreadful pain and death of post-surgical infection.
		Joseph Lister, an English surgeon, contributed to a fundamental revolution in surgery with the introduction of his antiseptic method.
		Joseph Lister is recognized as the father of antiseptic surgery.
	www.bookrags.com /Joseph_Lister,_1st_Baron_Lister (3592 words)

	Art and Medicine Bibliography, Gamgee
		Patient Joseph Bramwell, a 37 year old coal miner and father of seven children, was admitted to Queen's Hospital in Birmingham on September 3, 1862.
		This photograph confirms that Napoleon Sarony was already working in Birmingham England in 1861 and confutes those historical accounts which date his arrival in the year 1862 or later, and which place him before 1862 in the seaside town of Scarborough working for his brother, the prospering photographer of cartes-de-visite, Oliver Sarony.
		Joseph Sampson Gamgee is well remembered eponymously for his invention of a surgical dressing still in use today:
	www.artandmedicine.com /biblio/authors/Gamgee.html (546 words)

	Joseph Cotton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Joseph Chaires Plantation - Joseph Chaires Plantation was a large cotton plantation of 3800 acres (15Â km2) located in southern Leon County, Florida, USA owned by Joseph Chaires.
		Joseph Strutt (philanthropist) - Joseph Strutt (1765-1844) was one of Derby's most honoured wealthy citizens, whose wealth came from the produce of the silk/cotton/calico mill on the Morledge in Derby.
		Sampson Gamgee - Dr Joseph Sampson Gamgee, MRCS, FRSE (born 17 April, 1828, Livorno, Italy; died 18 September, 1886) was a surgeon at the Queen's Hospital (later the General Hospital) in Birmingham, England.
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	Sam Gamgee - The Lord of the Rings Wiki - A Wikia wiki
		Samwise Gamgee (TA 2983-F.A. 1383-1482), was Frodo Baggins' servant who proved to be the most loyal of the Fellowship of the Ring.
		After his wife died in the year 62 of the Fourth Age (Shire Reckoning 1482), Sam entrusted the Red Book to Elanor and left Middle-earth to sail across the Sea and be reunited with Frodo in the Undying Lands, though they would eventually die a mortal death.
		Tolkien took the name from Gamgee Tissue, a surgical dressing invented by a 19th century Birmingham surgeon called Joseph Sampson Gamgee.
	lotr.wikia.com /wiki/Sam_Gamgee (1348 words)

	Gamgee Tissue
		Gamgee Tissue is a surgical dressing invented by Dr. Joseph Sampson Gamgee in Birmingham, England, in 1880.
		It represents the first use of cotton wool in a medical context, and was a major advancement in the prevention of infection of surgical wounds.
		In Birmingham, "Gamgee" became the colloquial name for cotton wool.
	www.mrsci.com /Medical-Equipment/Gamgee_Tissue.php (119 words)

	Samwise Gamgee - Tolkien Gateway
		Samwise Gamgee (Third Age April 6, 2983 – Fourth Age 61, Shire Reckoning 1383 – 1482, aged 99 years when he sailed into the West) was Frodo Baggins' servant who proved to be the most loyal of the Fellowship of the Ring.
		After his wife died in Fourth Age 61, Sam entrusted the Red Book to Elanor and left Middle-earth to sail across the Sea and be reunited with Frodo in the Undying Lands, though they would eventually die a mortal death.
		J.R.R. Tolkien took the name from Gamgee Tissue, a surgical dressing invented by a 19th century Birmingham surgeon called Joseph Sampson Gamgee.
	tolkiengateway.net /wiki/Samwise_Gamgee (1169 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Gamgee Tissue
		Gamgee Tissue has a thick layer of absorbent cotton wool between two layers of absorbent gauze.
		Its name is a trademark, and has been since 1911.
		This led to a character name (Sam Gamgee) in J.R.R. Tolkien's book The Lord of the Rings.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Gamgee_Tissue (285 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Samwise Gamgee
		Tolkien's legendarium, Samwise Gamgee, commonly known as Sam, is a fictional character who was Frodo Baggins's servant, and proves, by virtue of his accompanying his master to the Crack of Doom, to be the most loyal of the Fellowship of the Ring.
		As a Ring-bearer, he was entitled to sail across the Sea and be reunited with Frodo in the Undying Lands, which is where the known history of Sam Gamgee ends.
		Sam Gamgee is often regarded as the "true hero" of Tolkien's story.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Sam_Gamgee (2155 words)

	HorseIT - Equestrian internet portal Competition sponsored by Robinsons Animal Health
		Joseph Sampson Gamgee (usually calling himself just Sampson Gamgee) was born in 1828.
		The outcome of the resultant collaboration was the first version of Gamgee Tissue wound dressings - layers of cotton wool and tissue sandwiched between two layers of sterile gauze.
		The Gamgee dressings available today are made from more modern materials but are still based on the principles of high absorbency and excellent cushioning specified by Dr Gamgee as anyone who uses Gamgee will know.
	www.horseit.com /en/riding2001/competition/robinsonsAH230805.htm (406 words)

	Sampson Gamgee: a great Birmingham surgeon -- Kapadia 95 (2): 96 -- Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
		Joseph Sampson Gamgee (known as Sampson) was born in 1828 at
		Sampson Gamgee was instrumental in bringing about this shift.
		Joseph Sampson Gamgee and the introduction of absorbent cotton wool as a surgical dressing.
	www.jrsm.org /cgi/content/full/95/2/96 (2349 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister
		Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, OM, FRS (5 April 1827, Upton, Essex –10 February 1912) was an English surgeon who promoted the idea of sterile surgery while working at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
		He attended the University of London, one of only a few institutions which was open to Quakers at that time.He initially studied the Arts but at the age of 25 became a Bachelor of Medicine and entered the Royal College of Surgeons.
		Joseph Lister – Father of Modern Surgery, by Rhoda Truax.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Joseph_Lister (1163 words)

	Arts,events,comedy,cinema,theatre,exhibitions,live music,festivals in Birmingham-Tolkien
		It's the offices of the charity, the Saturday Hospital Fund, an organization set up by a B'ham surgeon called Joseph Sampson Gamgee who made his name by inventing a surgical cotton wool known as the 'Gamgee Tissue'.
		Like Perott's Folly and Waterworks Tower, the name 'Gamgee' was part of Tolkien's early memories that surfaced in the Lord of the Rings.
		The old Brummie slang term Gamgee appears in the Lord of the Rings as the name of Frodo Bagins' trustworthy campanion and fellow ring bearer, Sam Gamgee.
	www.mybrum.co.uk /birmingham/art-tolkien.htm (1052 words)

	BBC - Birmingham - Capital of Culture - Facts about Birmingham - Did You Know..?
		Joseph Sampson Gamgee (1828-80), a Birmingham doctor, invented the surgical dressing known as cotton wool.
		Joseph Priestley, a Birmingham minister (1780-91), discovered oxygen.
		Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914) is recognised as the founder of municipal government.
	www.bbc.co.uk /birmingham/capital_of_culture/did_you_know2.shtml (479 words)

	Autographmania.Net - Tolkien
		He mostly probably chose this name from a local inventor Dr Joseph Sampson Gamgee.
		He was a Birmingham surgeon who invented cotton wool, which became 'Gamgee tissue'.
		It stands 100 feet-high and commemorates the universities first chancellor Joseph Chamberlain, hence the nickname "Old Joe." When it was first built it had its own power station because electricity was something very new back then and it would have been one of, if not the tallest buildings in Birmingham at the time.
	www.autographmania.net /tolkien.htm (975 words)

	GAMGEE, [Joseph] Sampson., On the Treatment of Wounds and Fractures: clinical lectures. Second edition. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		GAMGEE, [Joseph] Sampson., On the Treatment of Wounds and Fractures: clinical lectures.
		Label clumsily removed from front pastedown, and faint traces of a label removed from the upper cover, otherwise a very good copy.
		This book is a consolidated second edition of Gamgee's On the treatment of fractures (1871), and On the treatment of wounds (1878), reworked and with previously unpublished material added.
	www.polybiblio.com /phillips/425.html (159 words)

	KCSMD
		Joseph Lister was born in 1827 to the British physicist, Joseph Jackson Lister.
		They are largely on the practice of surgery and, judging by the inscriptions to Lister, indicate the esteem and respect in which he was held.
		Researches in pathological anatomy and clinical surgery (1856) by Joseph Sampson Gamgee (inventor of cotton wool) and The science and art of surgery...
	www.kcl.ac.uk /depsta/iss/library/speccoll/kcsmd.html (2411 words)

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		It stands near a later Victorian tower, part of Edgbaston Waterworks, and the pair are said to have suggested Minas Morgul and Minas Tirith, the Two Towers of Gondor, after which the second volume of Lord of the Rings is named.
		Tolkien used the name Sam Gamgee in the Lord of the Rings for Frodos faithful companion and the last of the ring-bearers.
		He probably came across Gamgee tissue as the local name for cotton wool which was invented by a Birmingham surgeon, Dr. Joseph Sampson Gamgee, whose widow lived opposite Tolkiens aunt in Stirling Road.
	www.herrderringe-fanfiction.de /Tolkien/tolkientrail/index.htm (529 words)

	Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister (April 5,1827-February 10,1912) was a famous British surgeon who promoted the idea of sterile surgery while working at the Glasgow Infirmary.
		He came from a prosperous Quaker home in Upton, Essex.
		For the recipient of the Victoria Cross, see Joseph Lister (soldier)
	www.music.us /education/J/Joseph-Lister,-1st-Baron-Lister.htm (999 words)

	The Medical School
		Located on the southern edge of the South Staffordshire coalfield, it was to the forefront of the Industrial Revolution based upon coal and iron, and the application of science and early technology to industry.
		Another member of the society was Joseph Priestley, who first isolated oxygen in 1774 and lived and worked in Birmingham between 1779 and 1791, continuing his groundbreaking research into human physiology.
		In 1880, the eminent General Hospital surgeon, who pioneered aseptic surgery, Sampson Gamgee invented the absorbent cotton wool and gauze surgical dressing, which today still bears his name (as does the hobbitt Sam Gamgee in J R R Tolkein's Lord of the Rings).
	www.medicine.bham.ac.uk /histmed/HistMed_school.htm (6315 words)

	GAMGEE, Joseph Sampson., On the Advantages of the Starched Apparatus in the treatment of fractures and diseases of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		GAMGEE, Joseph Sampson., On the Advantages of the Starched Apparatus in the treatment of fractures and diseases of joints.
		Being the first part of an essay to which the council of University College have awarded the Liston Clinical Medal.
		"In 1853, at Florence, he [Gamgee] had met the eminent Belgian surgeon, Baron Sentin, who had introduced the treatment of fractures by starched apparatus and bandages, and this treatment was the subject of his Liston prize essay and of his lifelong teaching" (DNB).
	www.polybiblio.com /phillips/424.html (168 words)

	Samwise Gamgee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His interest in the wondrous world beyond The Shire (nurtured by his tutor Bilbo Baggins) sets Sam apart from the other, more prosaic and homebound Hobbits.
		As the epic opens, Sam lives with his father, Hamfast Gamgee, known as "The Gaffer", on Bagshot Row in the Shire, close to Bag End.
		Sam's mother was Bell Goodchild, and he has five siblings: Hamson, Halfred, Daisy, May, and Marigold.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samwise_Gamgee (2417 words)

	Birmingham's Most Famous Son
		Tolkien probably came across the word Gamgee as the local name for cotton wool: Gamgee tissue.
		The inventor was a Birmingham surgeon, Dr Joseph Sampson Gamgee, who lived in the city until his death in 1880 at his house in Broad Street.
		Ronald Tolkien lodged for a while in Duchess Road where he met and fell in love with Edith Bratt, who was later to become his wife.
	albionheart.tripod.com /heartofengland/id5.html (1485 words)

	The One Ring: The White Council :: View topic - Tolkiens in the 1881 UK Census--Some Gamgees, Baggins, and Bilbos, Too
		Founded by the late Emeritus Professor Leonard Gamgee in memory of his father, Mr Sampson Gamgee, Surgeon to the Queen's Hosp.
		Gamgee had found that although the natural oils and waxes present in raw cotton make the fibres hydrophobic, these may be removed by a scouring or bleaching process rendering the fibres or fabric absorbent.
		Broad Street, where you say Mr Gamgee lived and died, is not in this parish and it would have been at the discretion of the then rector whether or not he could be buried here - and it is quite possible that permission would have been given.
	forums.theonering.com /viewtopic.php?t=57409 (6165 words)

	Real Live Preacher
		However, I don't think that Joseph Baker of Kilgore TX should be one of those individuals.
		If you are saying that you think that they should have an authority who keeps tabs on them to make sure that they are not committing war crimes, then I will grant you that.
		Some of us Canadians may be familiar with William Sampson's detention in Saudi Arabia, and the details of the Maher Arar case.
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	Scotsman.com News - Lord of the Rings - Lord of the Bull Ring (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Tolkien-fan line on Sarehole is that it provided the inspiration for the town mill in Hobbiton which at the book’s conclusion the Hobbits discover has been demolished and replaced by a grievously functional tower that belches smoke all over their scenic bolthole.
		The name Sam Gamgee is also from Tolkien’s Brum childhood: Dr Joseph Sampson Gamgee was a Birmingham surgeon who invented cotton wool, known then as the ‘Gamgee tissue’.
		As for the Marshes, these are thought to derive from Moseley Bog, which you find by travelling to Thirlmere Drive, then first right into Pensby Close (bus routes 4 and 11, if you’re interested).
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