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Commentaries on:

Medical Research Council (1948). Streptomycin treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. BMJ 2:769-82.

Crofton J.
The MRC randomized trial of streptomycin and its legacy: a view from the clinical front line.
Bastian H.
Down and almost out in Scotland: George Orwell, tuberculosis and getting streptomycin in 1948.
Armitage P.
A note on the statistical analysis of the 1948 MRC streptomycin trial
Chalmers I.
Why the 1948 MRC trial of streptomycin for pulmonary tuberculosis used treatment allocation based on random numbers

Commentaries on external sites:

Richard Doll.
Controlled trials: the 1948 watershed
BMJ 1998;317:1217-1220 (31 October)
Alan Yoshioka
Use of randomisation in the Medical Research Council's clinical trial of streptomycin in pulmonary tuberculosis in the 1940s
BMJ 1998;317:1220-1223 (31 October)

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