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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.

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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