Archibald Cockren

Archibald Cockren (?-1950) was a practising physician who became disenchanted with the reductionist medical interventions of his day and sought a method of treating the whole person. This led him to alchemy, and to experiments in the spagyric art that produced substances of astonishing therapeutic value. Some interesting insights into the experiments he conducted in his lab in London in the 1930s and the efficacy of some of his medicines can be obtained from Jean-Pascal Ruggiu's article...See more

Archibald Cockren (?-1950) was a practising physician who became disenchanted with the reductionist medical interventions of his day and sought a method of treating the whole person. This led him to alchemy, and to experiments in the spagyric art that produced substances of astonishing therapeutic value. Some interesting insights into the experiments he conducted in his lab in London in the 1930s and the efficacy of some of his medicines can be obtained from Jean-Pascal Ruggiu's article Rosicrucian Alchemy and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (1996), p.12. See less