He remained with Young until July 1807, when he was transferred to the Guerrier, and subsequently to the Snake sloop of war, in which he narrowly escaped shipwreck.
In 1815 he went to Scotland for two years, after which he returned to Guy's Hospital, and again devoted himself to study until 1819, when he commenced practice as a consulting surgeon in Great George Street, Westminster.
Gosset was among the first to detect and describe in February 1827 a peculiar accident to the elbow-joint, namely dislocation of the ulna backwards and inwards.
[1] In 1829 Gosset communicated the only case of renal aneurism then detected, the preparation of which was placed in the museum of Guy's Hospital.
In 1834 he directed attention to the use of the gilt-wire suture, which he employed in a case of vesico-vaginal fistula of eleven years' standing.
Having successfully applied nitric acid for the destruction of naevi for twenty years, he published in 1844 a paper showing the efficacy of that remedy.
He died somewhat suddenly at Broad Street Buildings on 21 October 1854, never having recovered from an attack of erysipelas incurred during a post-mortem examination.