CIGARETTES AND CANCER
SIR,—Brian Inglis's reference to the modern stress theory of disease as American is not correct. It will be found in the books of my brother—F. Matthias Alexander—who was not American but Australian.
The technique he devised to minimise stress on the human body is still being carried on by practitioners personally trained by him at this Foundation, in the very building where he practised for more than half a century.—Yours faithfully, BEAUMONT ALEXANDER The F. Matthias Alexander Foundation 16 Ashley Place, SW
[Brian Inglis writes : 'F. M. Alexander must be given the credit for attempting to revive interest here in the idea of a relationship between stress and disease : but his theories bore only a rudimentary resemblance to those now current in America and beginning to gain acceptance in Britain.'—Editor, Spectator.]
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