A type of medical gauze or absorbent cotton material used in bandaging and wound dressing, named after its inventor.
Named after Sampson Gamgee, a 19th-century English surgeon who invented an improved form of surgical padding around 1880; the term became genericized for the product type.
Gamgee's name was given to a fabric, and then J.R.R. Tolkien loved the name so much he named Frodo's hobbit companion Samwise 'Sam' Gamgee as a literary tribute to the inventor!
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