Harold Arthur Thomas Fairbank - bibliography

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Biography

Harold Arthur Thomas Fairbank, Sir Thomas Fairbank, English orthopaedic surgeon, born March 28, 1876, Windsor; died February 26, 1961.

Bibliography

  • Increased and decreased density of bone, with special reference to fibrosis of the marrow.
    The Robert Jones Lecture, 1938.
  • An Atlas of General Affections of the Skeleton.
    Edinburgh, Livingstone, 1951.
    Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1951.

    Obituaries/biographical:
  • The Medical Who's Who 1914. London [1914]
  • Orthopaedic Surgeons of To-Day: Sir H. A. Thomas Fairbank, D.S.O., M.S., F.R.C.S., M.Ch.Orth. (Hon.)
    N. C.
    Journal of bone and joint surgery. British volume, 1948, 30-B 377-382.
  • The Lancet, 1961, I: 566.
  • The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 1961, 43: 595.

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