Alchemy Rediscovered and Restored

According to practitioners and students of alchemy the bodys Vital Energy or Quintessence is best obtained from minerals and metals. Using everyday language and an accessible style Cockren explores the different uses and manifestations of this ancient science from the physical to the medicinal and even the spiritual. Along the way he provides engaging sketches of alchemys early pioneers including St. Germain Basil Valentine and the legendary Paracelsus providing a solid foundation to his belief that within the worlds metals can be found elements to cure all discords in the human body. Considered the greatest British alchemist of the 20th century ARCHIBALD COCKREN (d. 1950) was a practicing physician who also studied metallurgy biochemistry and bacteriology.