Ammonius (Lithotomos)
Surgeon of Alexandria who split bladder stones at the wound contested
- Dates
- No dates given in the film's sources
- Chapters
- III. The Oath and the Ligature, VII. Breaking the Stone
Contested
Celsus says the surname came from his stone-splitting process; Riches says it came from the instrument he invented. His date rests on Riches alone (about 200 BC).
What the film says
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Met a stone too large to draw out, held it with a hook at the wound and split it with a blow; called Lithotomos, the stone-cutter.
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Recalled as the man who split the stone in the wound; Civiale "went one better" by breaking it inside the bladder with no cut.
On the timeline
- About 200 BC (Riches): In Alexandria, Ammonius splits bladder stones too large to extract, at the perineal wound. probable timeline