Editing Bladder stone (section)

==History==
[[File:Carel van Savoyen - Jan de Doot.JPG|thumb|upright|Portrait of [[Jan de Doot]], by [[Carel van Savoyen]], holding the bladder stone he removed from himself according to a 1652 account in the book ''[[Observationes Medicae (Tulp)|Observationes Medicae]]'' by [[Nicolaes Tulp]]]]

''Lithoclastic cystotomy'' is attributed to [[Ammonius Lithotomos]] (stone-cutter) of Alexandria, Egypt. The term "[[lithotomy]]" is derived from the same words (λιθοτομία (lithotomia) - stone-cutting). [[Aulus Cornelius Celsus]] wrote that Lithotomos developed instruments to break up and extract bladder stones.<ref name=Celsus1831>{{cite book|last=Celsus|first=Aulus Cornelius|title=A translation of the eight books of Aul. Corn. Celsus on medicine|url=https://archive.org/details/atranslationeig00celsgoog|access-date=2011-06-04|year=1831|publisher=Simpkin and Marshal|pages=[https://archive.org/details/atranslationeig00celsgoog/page/n337 311]–}}</ref> Celsus gave the first description of lithotomy as performed before and during his time, and the operation has ever since borne his name—the Celsian method.<ref name=Gouley1892>{{cite book|last=Gouley|first=John William Severin|title=Diseases of the urinary apparatus: phlegmasic affections|url=https://archive.org/details/diseasesurinary01goulgoog|access-date=2011-06-04|year=1892|publisher=D. Appleton and Company|pages=[https://archive.org/details/diseasesurinary01goulgoog/page/n300 3]–}}</ref>