Sostratus
4. A surgeon of Alexandria, mentioned in terms of praise by Celsus (De Med. vii. praef. p. 137), who may be conjectured (from the names of his apparent contemporaries) to have lived in the third century B. C. (See also Cels. 7.4, 14, pp. 139, 151.) Sprengel says he was a celebrated lithotomist, but of this there is no evidence.
Works
He appears to have given some attention to the subject of bandages (Galen, De Fasc. 100.102, 103, vol. xviii. pt. i. p. 823; Nicetas, cc. 469, 482, 484), and is probably the same person who wrote some zoological works, which are quoted by several ancient authors, but are not now extant.
Further Information
Aelian, De Nat. Anim. 5.27, 6.51; Schol. Nicand. Ther. vv. 565, 747, 760, 764; Schol. Theocr. Id. 1.115; Athen. Deipn. 7.66, 90, pp. 303, 312.) See also Galen, De Antid. 2.14. vol. xiv. p. 184; and Gariopontus, De Febr. 100.7. (Sprengel's Gesch. der Arzneik. ed. 1846.
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