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Mrs. Julia Cozzaglio February 5, 1926.

For seven months I suffered from a swollen gland in my neck and a shooting pain in my heart. I was treated by many doctors in San Luis Obispo, going from one to another, but the neck kept swelling. I was in a terribly nervous condition, as the doctors were unanimous in saying that my trouble was goiter and that immediate operation was the only thing that could help me.

Neither my husband nor myself liked the idea of my being cut with a knife, so we made up our minds to take a trip to San Francisco to see what the physicians there could do for me. While in the train we met Mr. G. R. Tibbets of Alameda, who recommended FONG WAN to us. However, we didn't act immediately upon Mr. Tibbets' advice, but carried out our original plan and went to an eminent physician in San Francisco. His advice was the same as that of the doctors in San Luis Obispo had been. He said that an immediate operation was imperative, and estimated that it would cost about $600 for the operation and the doctor's fee in addition to hospital expenses for two months. Although we did not mind the cost so much, we feared that I might never come off the operating table alive. Then we decided to go to Oakland and consult FONG WAN. He said that all that was the matter with me was inflammation of the heart and of the swollen gland and that it could be easily and speedily overcome. Although it seemed too good to believe, I took some of his herbs to Alameda with me and boiled and drank them according to directions. IN TWO WEEKS MY RECOVERY WAS COMPLETE. IT SEEMED LIKE A MIRACLE. WE ARE SO HAPPY THAT WE