title: No acid, no ulcer: Dragutin (Carl) Schwarz (1868-1917), the man ahead of his time.
abstract: Dragutin (Carl) Schwarz (1868-1917) was born in VaraŽdin (part of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy then, northwestern part of Croatia today). As many Croats of the period he enrolled in the Vienna School of Medicine and graduated in 1891. After spending some time in a few clinics of the Monarchy, he returned to his homeland in 1895. Named the primary physician of the surgical department of Charity Brothers' Hospital in Zagreb, he motivated lively activities there and became the prominent member of the medical community. Apart from his impressive surgical work, Carl Schwarz is primarily remembered for his dictum 'No acid, no ulcer' (1910) which was proven to be true in the decades that followed. This short editorial aims at recalling those visionary observations ever inviting and challenging further investigations.
authors.affiliation: Department for History and Philosophy Sciences, Division for the History of Medicine, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb, Croatia. stella@hazu.hr
authors.forename: Stella
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fatović-Ferenčić
authors.forename: Marko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Banić
mesh_terms: D017523:Croatia; D005744:Gastric Acid / Q000378:metabolism*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D010437:Peptic Ulcer / Q000266:history* / Q000503:physiopathology