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Gamgee, gamgee|ˈgæmdʒiː|
The name of Joseph Sampson Gamgee (1828–1886), English surgeon, used attrib. (usu. in Gamgee tissue) or absol. to designate a wound-dressing invented by him, consisting of a thickness of cotton-wool between two thin layers of gauze.
1895Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List 699/2 Gamgee Tissue..per lb 2/6. 1906Practitioner Nov. 674 The application of a baked or scorched pad of Gamgee tissue. 1924Glasgow Herald 8 Apr. 10 Strips of emergency field-dressing gamgee. 1937‘A. Bridge’ Enchanter's Nightshade xxvi. 347 The complicated apparatus of poultices and gamgee jackets. |