About A. T. Brand
Lived 1852 – 1934 (aged 81–82). A. T. Brand was an American writer and physician.
Alexander Theodore Brand (1852 – 23 June 1934) was a British physician and cancer researcher.
Brand was born in Chicago of Scottish parentage. 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. 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.
Selected publications
A Contribution to the Aetiology of Cancer (1902) The Etiology of Cancer (1902) The Exogenesis of Cancer (1903) Some Remarks on the Infectivity of Cancer (1907) Cancer: Its Cause, Treatment and Prevention (1922) Prevention of Cancer (1923)
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Who was A. T. Brand?
British physician and cancer researcher
When was A. T. Brand born?
A. T. Brand was born in 1852 in Chicago.
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A. T. Brand died on 23 June 1934.
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A. T. Brand was a writer and physician.
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A. T. Brand was American.
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