The herald., 1896-01-21


interest is illustrated by short article IL
the Los Angeles Record for January 10
This picayune little sheet, which has
for a few months past. been making
great noise in proportion to its size. lik
a grasshopper or bullfrog. and has beel
industriously aping the style of bigge
and better publications, in the esperat
hope of planting itself in a Journalistic
field already fully occupied, published
the following false malicious and sensa
tional little squib:
"FAKIR IN HOG.
"Chinese Physician in Jail for Nal
practice-His Advertising Agent to b.
Arrested-Some of Their Victims.
"a warrant has been issued for the ar
rest of q. G. Platt, the advertising agen
of Foo Yuen. a Chinese doctor doin,
business at No. II Bernard Place. Th'
fake physician has himself heen arrested
upon charge of malpractice. He is no
registered at the County Clerks office, fo
he has not certificate that would admi
of his being registered. The Chinese
faklr has for weeks past been advertising
deriding the methods of the moderr
schools OF medicine and claiming for the
Chinese herbs and himself almost su'
pernatural power to cure. Recently q
man who was receiving treatment. from
him died by reason of the fact he did moi
receive proper medical care. This is one
victim that is known. There are peIhe ps
others who have lost their lives, and
there are still others who are yet alive,
but who have been skinned OF Their
money by the clever advertising of this
Chinese fraud"
1t would be interesting to know just
how the above piece OF journalistic en-
terprise" was received by the different
people who happened to read it. Doubt
less the numerous members of the class
which swallows whole everything that is
printed in newspaper opened their
mouths for this chunk of wisdom and
eulped it without a wink or quiver. The
growing class of those who do not believe
newspapers and reporters probably
laughed at it and passed to something
more i'm portant. The few who knew the
correct circumstances of the case were
Justly indignant at the attempt to libel
an honest man. We feel justified in call
ing the Record liar, for the following
reasons:
First, DR.. Foo has not been arrested in
Los Angeles. Second, he has never been
in Jail. Third, he has never been
charged with malpractice. Fourth, he
has never claimed "ior the Chinese herbs
and himself almost supernatural power
to cure" Fifth, no person who has ever
bought herbs from him has "died by
reason OF the fact that he did not rc-
ceiye proper medical care" Sixth, no
persons "have been skinned of their
money by him And, seventh, DR..
Foo is not a fakir. The Record ought to
raise the salary OF the able-oodied liar
who penned that little article, for he has
managed to compress seven distinct and
separate falsenoods into about one hun
dred and fifty words. So far as we know
this beats all previous efforts in South
ern California, in the line of Justification.
The first, second and third denials in
the above paragraph are simply matters
of judicial record, and any person sufi-
ciently interested may investigate them
for himself. The fifth will be discussed
by us more fully in another place. The
others are open to further explanation.
The statement that we have claimed for
our herbs almost supernatural power is
simply absurd, as any one Will admit
who has read our Advertisements. We
have constantly taken pains to assert in
the most explicit Language that there is
no mystery about our methods; that our
diagnosis depends entirely on the pulse,
which is theonIy true and scientific out
ward Ind icatiop OF the condition of the
vital organs, the inroads of disease and
the constitutional vigor of any person,
and that our remedies are nothing what
ever hut the simplest of herbs, which are
delivered to those VINO choose tc use
them in packages for home preparation.
We write no prescriptions in dead Ian
guages. We make no spread-eagle claims
to profound wisdom in the lins of ''spec-
iialties."
We do not assert that medicines alone
will cure anything and everything. On
the contrary, we advise those who consult
lus in reference to their health to practice
the most extreme caution and selt-de-
.nial in m alters Of diet and regimen, con-
'stantly impressing upon their minds that
every effort must be made to reinforce
the action of the herb, and to give them
"a full opportunity to exercise their up
building and nutritive functions to the
fullest extent in order to obtain the best
results. We do not even permit the use
of tea, coffee, tobacco. liquors. or any
other stim ulants or narcotics whatever,
in any cases for which we recommend
the use of our herbal specifics. We con.
stantly believe and attempt to jnculcate
upon the minds OF others the truth tina,
purity and simplicity in diet and in life
are the greatest, chief and indispensable
elements in regaining lost health; thai
without self-denial and restriction upor
the part OF the patient medication is ut
ierly valueless. In fact. we will not sci
our herbs to persons who refuse to follow
I our advice in these respects. Yet thu
irresponsible tcribbler of the Record ha
the audacity to charge us with claiming
for the Chinese herbs almost superna
tural power to cure, when nothing coulC
be farther from the truth. We believe
that one of the greaest abuses OF the pres
ent day is the wholesale swallowing o
drugs without attention to diet and rule
| of health, but with the childish assump p
tion. fostered by custom and by tn
practices Of too many physicians, tha
constant dosing will relieve the ills from
/ which humanity suffers. Moreover, W
have repeatedly refused to sell our rene
dies to people who, as we thought, coul'
not receive benefit from them. Superna
tura, forsooth! Go too, scribbler OF tn
Record, learn to speak the truth, stud
the use Of the English language. avoi
+ misre presentation and pray for truthful
and upright spirit.
The charges that VIC ''havc skinne