J. Gardner & Son were surgical instrument manufacturers established in Edinburgh in 1866. They operated out of locations on Forrest Road, Teviot Place, and Candlemaker Row. In addition to surgical instruments, they also produced aseptic furniture, surgical bandages, and artificial limbs. While they manufactured a number of standard instruments, they also worked with doctors to produce new instruments and appliances by request.

J. Gardner & Son were the primary surgical instrument manufacturers to the following institutions: Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh City Hospital, Edinburgh Parish Council, Edinburgh Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the Insane (Royal Edinburgh Hospital), Edinburgh Royal Public Dispensary, Longmore Hospital for Incurables, Deaconess Hospital, Leith Hospital, Stirling Royal Infirmary, Perth City and County Infirmary, Dundee Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Northern Infirmary in Inverness, Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary, and Glasgow Western Infirmary. They additionally took commissions from other institutions in both Scotland and England. Around the beginning of the twentieth century, they began to receive an increasing number of orders from abroad as well.

The business was sold by Andrew Norman Gardner in 1943 to Archd. Young and Son, Ltd., Surgical Instrument Makers, who continued to operate the business from the Forrest Road location under the name of J. Gardner & Son.