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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