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John A. Oates, M.D., Editor Alastair JJ. Wood, M.D., Associate Editor jTHE past 10 years have witnessed major changes in our understanding of the pathogenesis and treatment of what are commonly called the acid-peptic diseases. Schwarz's dictum — "without acid gastric juice, no peptic ulcer" — still applies.1 Increasingly, however, ulcers have come to be seen as areas of mucosa in which the effects of all noxious influences have exceeded the restorative capacities of all processes favorable to mucosal repair and integrity. A major stimulus to the growth of our knowledge in this area has been the development of . . .