A remarkable family -- Childhood and student years -- Letters to a special friend -- The red urine story -- Assistant professor in Uppsala -- A trip to USA in 1944-5 -- The seminal discovery of two new diseases -- Turbulent final years in Uppsala -- The "great" medical faculty -- Allmänna sjukhuset (Malmö General Hospital) -- Professor and chairman in Malmö -- Autoimmune hepatitis -- The charismatic leader -- The carcinoid syndrome -- Start of a golden Age -- Hypergammaglobulinemia. The Jewel in the Crown -- Porphyria -- Inga Marie Nilsson - Queen of hemophilia -- Carl-Bertil Laurell -- The Division of cardiology -- Endocrinology -- Hematology in Sweden and in the world -- The light comes from the east -- Visits and visitors -- Nobel symposium III -- Emeritus professor -- New activities in Stockholm -- Jan Waldenström, globetrotter- Macroglobulinemia - an update -- Happy emeritus years -- The final years and the legacy.