Noah Biggs

Noah Biggs was an English medical reformer^[1] and alchemical writer of the middle of the seventeenth century. In his Chymiatrophilos, mataeotechnia medicinae praxes: The Vanity of the Craft of Physick^[2], from 1651, he attacked pretentious and quack medical theories of his time. He also implied that Galenists in the College of Physicians opposed the Parliamentarian regime^[3]. He is credited with introducing the words ‘febrile’^[4] and ‘obesity’.