FONG WAN - Library

Q. Did the doctors describe to you the condition of your lungs,
without saying what it was ?
The Court: Just answer 'Yes' or 'No/ A. Yes.
Q. Did you continue your treatment with these doctors ? A. They
never gave me anything that I remember of, at all.
The Court: Q. Did you take what was called the rest cure? A.
No, sir, I have never been able to.
Q. Well, finally, did you go to Fong Wan's ? A. I did, yes.
Q. About how long ago? A. Close to six years ago. I think it
was a little less than six years ago.
Q. Did you personally go and consult Fong Wan ? A. Yes.
Q. Did he compound certain herbs for you ? A. Yes.
Q. About how long did you take them ? A. I took them, I think,
for around five months.
Q. Will you just state to the jury in your own language what oc-
curred as the result of your taking them ? A. I began getting better
right away. I never felt better in all my life. I was more competent
to do work, and could do more of it with less fatigue than I ever could
before in all my life, counting in my young days and all. My side got
much better. In fact, it got so that I took no notice of it at all. I slept
good, ate good, and I gained. I cannot say too much about them.
There is nothing else I can say is better than those herbs.
Q. Has the trouble ever come back on you? A. Once in a great
while I do have a little trouble with my side if I take a real bad cold.
This last winter not this winter, but last winter, about a year ago,
possibly a little over, I was working up in Santa Rosa and I caught
cold. I went to a doctor up there and got some medicine. He was a
homeopathic doctor. It did not seem to do me any good much. I came
on down here and went to another doctor here. The reason I did not
go to Fong Wan's then was because I was very short of money. I got
some medicine from this other doctor. I took the medicine from both
of these doctors without any result, at all. I then went to Fong Wan
and took a week's treatment from him and cleared my side up per-
fectly good, and I was as well as ever, again.
Q. You were not subpoenaed as a witness to come here, were you ?
A. No, sir.
Q. You came down on your own accord ? A. Yes, I volunteered."
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