Samuel Guthrie (physician)

Samuel Guthrie (* 1782 in Brimfield, Massachusetts, † October 19, 1848 in Sackets Harbor, New York) was an American chemist and physician. He succeeded in 1831 the production of chloroform, regardless of Justus von Liebig and Eugene Souberain. For the first time it was used for amputations in Sackets Harbor.

He also invented, some 18 years after the Egg, a percussion cap.