[2][1] He authored a number of works, including on Leopoldina members Daniel Sennert and Christian Franz Paullini.

[5] Sweetening wine in this manner was a common practice in Ulm in Gockel's day in order to compensate for poor quality grapes.

The severe 'colic of Poitou, France' was described by the physician of Cardinal Richelieu but the cause was unknown.

He credited Samuel Stockhausen's 1656 work describing the symptoms of lead poisoning among miners, then known as Hüttenkatze.

[6] Other local physicians reached the same conclusion, and Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg, banned the addition of litharge to wine in 1696.