Ammonius Lithotomos [SEP] place of death
Ammonius Lithotomos
Ammonius Lithotomos (; ; fl. 3rd century BC), of Alexandria, was a Greek (some say Egyptian) lithotomist.
Work.
Reported by Celsus, Ammonius invented the tools to break up "bladder stones".
Lithoclastic cystotomy is attributed to Ammonius "Lithotomos" (stone-cutter), from which arose the term lithotomy, now having the arbitrary signification of cutting for the stone. Celsus gave the first description of lithotomy as performed before and during his time, and the operation has
gabex" by his contemporaries. The same reference in Ammonius has alternatively been read as "gam(m)ex" by some modern authors. Ammonius as well as later theologians discuss the symbol in the context of explaining the apparent contradiction and variant readings between the gospels in assigning the death of Jesus either to the "third hour" or "sixth hour", arguing that the one numeral symbol could easily have been substituted for the other through a scribal error.
Names Stigma.
The name "stigma" () was originally a common