party of Luther,
developing that bitter hatred to the Reformation which animated his
forceful but shallow ascription of the movement to the meanest motives,
due to a quarrel between the Dominicans and Augustinians. Luther would
not meet him in discussion at Mainz in 1521. He was present at the diets
of Worms, Regensburg, Spires and Augsburg. The peasants' war drove him
from Frankfort; he obtained (1526) a canonry at Mainz; in 1529 he became
secretary to Duke George of Saxony, at Dresden and Meissen. The death of
his patron (1539) compelled him to take flight. He became canon
(September 1539) at Breslau, where he died on the 10th of January 1552.
He was a prolific writer, largely of overgrown pamphlets, harsh and
furious. His more serious efforts retain no permanent value. With
humanist convictions, he had little of the humanist spirit. We owe to
him one of the few contemporary notices of the young Servetus.

See C. Otto, _Johannes Cochlaeus, der Humanist_ (1874); Haas, in I.
Goschler's _Dict. encydoped. de la theol. cath._ (1858); Brecher, in
_Allgemeine deutsche Biographie_ (1876); T. Kolde, in A. Hauck's
_Realencyklopadie fur prot. Theol. u. Kirche_ (1898). (A. Go.*)

COCK, EDWARD (1805-1802), British surgeon, was born in 1805. He was a
nephew of Sir Astley Cooper, and through him became at an early age a
member of the staff of the Borough hospital in London, where he worked
in the dissecting room for thirteen years. Afterwards he became in 1838
assistant surgeon at Guy's, where from 1849 to 1871 he was surgeon, and
from 1871 to 1892 consulting surgeon. He rose to be president of the
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 bladder, injuries to the head, and hernia.
He was the first English surgeon to perform pharyngotomy with success,
and also one of the first to succeed in trephining for middle meningeal
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 Kingston in 1892.

COCKADE (Fr. _cocarde_, in 16th century _coquarde_, from _coq_, in
allusion pr