George John Seabury (November 10, 1844 – February 13, 1909) was an American chemist and pharmacist. In 1874 he and Robert Wood Johnson invented a new type of adhesive bandage.[1]
Biography
Seabury was born in New York on November 10, 1844. He was the son of Michael Seeberg, an immigrant from Baden, Germany.[2] He served in the Army during the early part of the American Civil War. He first enlisted as a drummer boy in the Twelfth Regiment and served for more than a year in the Army of the Potomac.[2]
Together with Robert Wood, Seabury improved on the medicated adhesive plaster by introducing a rubber base.[3] This new adhesive surgical dressing reduced sepsis in wounds.[4]
Seabury died at his home in New York on February 15, 1909.[5] He first suffered an attack of influenza and was followed by pneumonia, which caused his death.[2] He is buried in Orange, New Jersey's Rosedale Cemetery.[6]
Works
- Shall Pharmacists Become Tradesmen (1899)
- The Constructive and Reconstructive Forces Essential to Maintain American International Supremacy (1902)
References
- ^ Benjamin, Marcus, Dictionary of American Biography. American Council of Learned Societies. 1928–1936.
- ^ a b c The Pacific Pharmacist. San Francisco, CA: Galen Publishing Company. 1908. p. 8.
- ^ Alfred, Randy (2012). Mad Science: Einstein's Fridge, Dewar's Flask, Mach's Speed, and 362 Other Inventions and Discoveries That Made Our World. Little, Brown. p. 65. ISBN 978-0-316-20818-5.
- ^ Snodgrass, Mary Ellen (2015). The Civil War Era and Reconstruction: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural and Economic History. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-45790-9.
- ^ "George J. Seabury". New-York Tribune. February 15, 1909. p. 7. Retrieved December 5, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Rosedale Cemetery Walking Guide of Notable Interments" (PDF). Retrieved November 8, 2022.
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