The MRC trial: testing streptomycin with controlled allocation

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The Medical Research Council compared streptomycin plus bed rest with bed rest alone for pulmonary tuberculosis using randomized allocation and concealed assignments. The report made both the treatment comparison and its evaluation method inspectable.

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This is the evaluation trial, not the discovery of streptomycin. It is not claimed as the first randomized experiment in all history. Drug resistance and the specific trial population limit interpretation; the committee, rather than an invented individual byline, is retained.

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