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jeweler, to the effect that, having been troubled with nervous attacks
for years, he had spent over $3,500 with doctors, and that finally, when
an operation on his spine was suggested, he had quit them, and had
taken the Fong Wan Herbs which had restored him to health in seven
weeks. Fong Wan was speedily acquitted.
Again on May 8, 1919, when Fong Wan was on trial in Police Court
No. 2, his patrons rallied to his aid. It was publicly declared that the
Fong Wan Herb Tea had relieved stomach trouble, kidney and bladder
complaints, and dropsy. Never before had there been such an array of
witnesses in a local court for any treatment. The jurors were greatly
interested and the herbalist was again acquitted.
During the years that have elapsed since that trial, stool pigeons
have been repeatedly parked outside of the Fong Wan office, and Fong
Wan has been haled into court many, many times by the agents of both
the Medical and the Pharmacy Boards. In no case has any charge been
sustained against him.
Despite these hindrances and interruptions, Fong Wan has attained
unprecedented success as a herbalist. His remarkable judgment and
business ability have received recognition on both sides of the Pacific,
and some years age he was made a member of one of the oldest and
largest companies in Hong Kong, China, that exports to foreign lands.
The reconstructive ability of Fong Wan has also been evinced in
other lines. Twenty-one years ago, before establishing the Fong Wan
Company in Oakland, Fong Wan investigated the education, the herbal
knowledge, the intelligence, the ability, and the honesty of the her-
balists, herb specialists, and herb doctors then doing business in Oak-
land. Actuated by confidence in his own ability to become the leading
herbalist in that city, he moved to Oakland from Santa Rosa. Even
at that time, he foresaw that Oakland was destined to become the
Chicago of the West.
He found a roomy old house at Eighth and Clay streets which for
many years had been occupied by a Chinese Herb Company that had
changed hands many times, but never for the better. He paid the own-
ers of the old company $75 for the good will of the trade and opened
up afresh with an entirely new stock and new methods.
Because of his success in relieving the thousands of sufferers who
came to him at that location, Fong Wan's herb business soon outgrew
its quarters. He is now the best known herbalist in America.
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