| Alexander Theodore Brand | |
| Birth Date: | 1852 |
| Birth Place: | Chicago |
| Occupation: | Physician, cancer researcher |
Alexander Theodore Brand (1852 – 23 June 1934) was a British physician and cancer researcher.
Brand was born in Chicago of Scottish parentage.[1] He graduated M.B, C.M. with honours from Aberdeen University in 1881. He started medical practice in Driffield in 1882 and obtained his M.D. in 1884.[1] Brand practiced medicine for forty-five years, he retired in 1927. He was a member of the British Medical Association for over fifty years.[1] He was President of the East Yorks and North Lincolnshire Branch during 1902–1903. Brand was a major in the Royal Army Medical Corps and commanded the No. 2 East Yorks Field Ambulance.[1]
Brand took interest in studying the origin of cancer and promoted an infectious theory of cancer due to an undiscovered microorganism.[1] [2] He authored the book Cancer: Its Cause, Treatment and Prevention, in 1922 and often debated the origin of cancer with other physicians who disputed his theory in the British Medical Journal.[3] [4] [5]