Editing Cow hitch (section)

==History==
A simple and useful knotted structure, the cow hitch has been known since at least the first century when described by [[Ancient Greek medicine|Greek physician]] [[Heraklas]] in a [[monograph]] on surgical knots and slings.<ref name="hage">{{citation|last=Hage|first=J. Joris|periodical=World Journal of Surgery|date=April 2008|volume=32|issue=4|pages=648–55|title=Heraklas on Knots: Sixteen Surgical Nooses and Knots from the First Century A.D.|doi=10.1007/s00268-007-9359-x|pmid=18224483}}</ref>  Known under a variety of names, this knot has been used both on land and at sea.<ref name="ashley305">{{citation |last=Ashley |first=Clifford W. |title=The Ashley Book of Knots |year= 1944 |publisher=Doubleday |location=New York |page=305 }}</ref>  The common alternate name "lark's head" is attributed to Tom Bowling (pseudonym) in the 1866 work ''The Book of Knots'' which is presumed to have been adapted from a French manuscript; lark's head is a literal translation of the French name for the knot, ''tête d'alouette''.<ref name="ashley11">Ashley, p. 11.</ref>