When he lived in the canton of Glarus, Emil Zopfi occasionally received a small amount of money from the Zopfi Foundation in Schwanden. A Dr. Samuel Zopfy (1804-1890) had decreed that from the hundredth year after his death, all adult "male and female members of the Zopfi family" in the canton would receive annual interest on the foundation's assets. When researching another book, Zopfi comes across an interesting story: In October 1862, Dr. Zopfy is called to La Spezia, together with the most famous doctors in Europe, to the hospital of the Italian freedom fighter Giuseppe Garibaldi to discuss his gunshot wound. How did the family doctor, surgeon, dentist and homeopath from the Glarnerland, who was also a winegrower, manufacturer and inventor, come to these honours? With the help of many sources and his imagination, Emil Zopfi tells the story e.