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ON May 6, after a few hours of illness, Arthur Eastwood, formerly of the Laboratory of the Ministry of Health, died in London in his sixty-ninth year. He was born in Manchester, was educated in its Grammar School and graduated in Lit. Hum. at Oxford in 1893. Deeply read in moral philosophy, with the Bar as the obvious place for his acute intellect and power of lucid exposition, Eastwood at this time fell under the spell of Michael Foster as the ‘philosopher in medicine’, migrated to Cambridge to sit at Foster's feet and finally qualified M.D. (London) in 1902, after clinical studies at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. His distinguished work in the histology of malignant tumours led the Royal Commission on Tuberculosis to invite him to examine its experimental material. At the Commission's experimental farm in Stansted, Essex, in 1902-9, Eastwood spent seven busy and happy years, making with Cobbett and the brothers Griffith a highly successful ‘team’, one of the first to show how valuable team-work can be in ad hoc research.
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Dr. Arthur Eastwood. Nature 137, 975 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137975a0
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