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Chinese herbalism in 1920s Oakland: Fong Wan's own book of herbs, cases and cookery, published from his Tenth Street office at a time when practising it got him prosecuted — and acquitted.

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Cancer Removed Without the Knife

To FONG WAN-Dear Sir:

Oakland, Calif.

After an accident I suffered with injured, bleeding kidneys. My health was very much impaired. I had pains in the back of my neck and dizziness. What discouraged me most was that my legs swelled considerably. It seemed as if my whole system was poisoned and that the end of my life was near. My privates became swollen and inflamed; they increased in size to that of a grape fruit. In such a condition, I could not walk. All the folks about me thought that the case was hopeless. Our physician said that my only chance was in an operation. I would not go on the operating table because I am past 70 years of age. My body was mere skin and bones, like that of a skeleton. I feared I might not survive an operation and concluded that if I had to die, I should rather die a natural death than under the knife. Because of my advanced age, I thought that I should have to die after a few years anyhow, so I decided to look for relief.

The Good Lord had prepared Fong Wan for me. My wife went to see him and explain to him my symptoms. The herb tea was cooked to drink, once a day. I commenced to feel some better. At the end of the sixth week an application of herbal treatment was made to the cancer. It broke open and the whole mass of bloody pus -(112)came out. Within a few days the sore opening was healed. I am still keeping on with the herb tea, and I have gained a wonderful appetite. I have gained seven pounds in weight during the past ten days and I feel like a new man.

Before the cancer broke, my friend talked to the surgeon about my case. The latter said that while the Chinese herbs might make me feel good for a few days, the cancer would kill me anyway, if I did not have it cut out. But the cancer came out under the herb treatment without the knife and my life was saved through the skill of the

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