FONG WAN - Library

Prosecuting Attorney: Q. Where did you get that, Doctor? A.
From Dr. Stewart's Chinese Materia Medica, also a standard work.
Q. Did you translate it? yourself? A. Dr. Stewart did it.
Q. You didn't do it? A. No, I verified it with the Chinese names.
Prosecuting Attorney: I object to it, your Honor, as hearsay and
calling for the opinion and conclusion of the witness. In the first place
he is not qualified to testify.
The Court: What do you say to that, defense attorney? The ob-
jection seems to have merit.
Defense Attorney: I don't want any error in the record. If there
is any doubt about it I think I would rather leave it out."
For the past 50 years, John Endicott Gardner has been an authority
in the translation of English into Chinese and vice versa, for the governments
of Hongkong, Australia, Canada, and the United States. He
is widely known as the authority of an Index Key to the Chinese writ-
ten language; the same being the only such key in the world.
Upon investigation, he found that the herbs sold by Fong Wan to
government inspectors were compounded in accordance with the ancient
Chinese formulas contained in the "Chinese Golden Text Book of Herb-
al Remedies, " compiled by the Imperial Chinese Government about 300
years ago.
167