Eminent medical doctor from Karlovac Dr. Milan Nemicić (1884-1930)

Milan Nemicić was born in 1844 in Petrinja, Croatia. He was promoted as medical doctor at Vienna medical school (Jozefinum) in 1868. In 1873 he became chief medical officer in regiment. During occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1878 he was very active in war operations near Bihad. In 1883 he was elected city physician in Karlovac and head doctor in Karlovac city hospital. During 1886 he was in Pasteur Institute in Paris and together with Louis Pasteur studied vaccination process in rabies. His results were published in Liecnicki vjestnik. He undertook first biological experiment on rabbit with rabies in Croatia, and he was first to have vaccinated patients with Pasteur's antirabies vaccine. Lexicon medicorum (Ljekarski rjecnik) was his biggest accomplishment printed in Zagreb 1898. He was retired in 1904 and lived in Graz, last years of his life he spent in Merano and died in 1930 at the age of 86 years.