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EDWARD COCK (1805-1892)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 622 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDWARD See also:COCK (1805-1892)  , See also:British surgeon, was See also:born in 18o5 . He was a See also:nephew of See also:Sir See also:Astley See also:Cooper, and through him became at an See also:early See also:age a member of the See also:staff of the See also:Borough See also:hospital in See also:London, where he worked in the dissecting See also:room for thirteen years . Afterwards he became in 1838 assistant surgeon at See also:Guy's, where from 1849 to 1871 he was surgeon, and from 1871 to 1892 consulting surgeon . He See also:rose to be See also:president of the See also:College of Surgeons in 1869 . He was an excellent anatomist, a bold operator, and a clear and incisive writer, and though in lecturing he was afflicted with a stutter, he frequently utilized it with humorous effect and emphasis . From 1843 to 1849 he was editor of Guy's Hospital Reports, which contain many of his papers, particularly on stricture of the urethra, puncture of the See also:bladder, injuries to the See also:head, and See also:hernia . He was the first See also:English surgeon to perform pharyngotomy with success, and also one of the first to succeed in trephining for See also:middle meningeal See also:haemorrhage; but the operation by which his name is known is that of opening the urethra through the perinaeum (see Guy's Hospital Reports, 1866) . He died at See also:Kingston in 1892 .

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