The herald., 1897-10-24

About five years ago the successful medi-
cal institution now widely known as the
Foo and Wing Herb Company had It's ori-
gin in an interior city of Southern Cali
fornia. Its beginnings were obscure, bu'
its success was marked from the very first
and its fame soon spread among neighbor-
ing communities. Among the warmesl
friends of DR.. r. Foo Yuen, who was The
founder, and is stll at the head OF TINS en-
terprise, are many of his earliest patrons
VINO received great benefit from his skill
in their own cases, and have since watched
his career in Southern California witt
every confidence in his ultimately brilliant
success, a confidence which time mas fully
justified
There must be definite reason for the
success of a physician. In the difficult pro-
fession of medicine incompetence. fraud
pretense and ignorant assumption soot
run brief and disastrous course. When
health is at stake people want the best
They do not consult an ignoramus or a pre-
tender twice. nor do they recommend sucf
an one to their friends. The doctor who
fails to cure-and there are thousands o.
them--is at least permitted to remain ir
obscurity. He does not become shining
light In the profession, with numerous pa
tients and a growing bank account. MOI
does he win the friendship of those VINO
are so unfortunate as to trust themselves
once to his unskllful experiments
1t is therefore only right and reasonable
that DR. Foo should point with pride" to
the many cures that he has made Of per-
sons who knew him when he first came tc
Southern California, who found refuge in
his skill and the potent, harmless herbs
which he prescribes, from multitude oi
distressing physical ills. and are today re-
joicing in the health that he restored to
them, in many cases after numerous una
vailing trials of other physicians. These
early patrons have been friends of DR.. ZOO.
They have recommended other inValids to
his care and attention, and the result has
hepu M a p ed and SllcpeSc n. pl-
entage that has grown steadily from the
beginning and is still growing, and repu-
tation for truth, honesty and the perform
ance of promises of which any physician
in any country might well be proud
These are the only elements of success IN
the medical profession. In this, as per-
haps in no other, brains tell. A thorough
knowledge of anatomy, an absolute famil-
arity with the remedial agents employed,
instinct and intuition in diagnosis, and a
clear, cool head for prescribing, these are
some of the personal qualities which all
who know DR.. Foo intimately have recog-
nized in him. Completely absorbed in his
profession, without a thought or an inspi-
ration apart from it, endowed by heredity
with special likings and special aptitudes
for the healing art and trained from his
early boyhood for this calling. DR.. Foo has
devoted every faculty of an unusually act
i've mind to the study of the myriad forms
of disease and the available means of cur
ing them. He is by no means blind fol
but is an original and independent thinker
He has methods of his own. and the proof
of their value is seen in hundreds of cures
| that he has made.
| The writer was among the earliest of DR.
Foo's friends in Southern California. and
| has watched his career with great deal OF
interest. Like scores of others consulted
Dr. Foo only as a last resort, when nearly
dead from a complication of apparently
incurable diseases and after trying every
thing else within reach. had the unlver-
sal prejudice against the Chinese and the
| very prevalent notion that their system o.
medicine is a humbug. 1 was induced tc
consult DR.. Foo only by the urgent per
| suason of friends who knew something
about him, and with very little faith on my
| own part in his skill or in the virtues of hi
remedies. AS in hundreds of other case
which l have since observed 1 was i'm
measurably surprised by the termination
of my case, for | found myself again wei
| man, contrary to every expectation on m!
| part, but only after a most heroic strug
gle on the part of DR.. Foo against the lis
orders which were threatening my life
Since then 1 have watched DR.. Foo's prog
ress from an uncertain and comparatively
unknown position in a country town to &
handsome and well equipped establishment
in the metropolis of Southern California
with q constantly increasing influence ant
a highly satisfactory patronage.
Such an experience naturally sets a mar
10 thinking, and the result of the writer's
reflections was to change many of his ideas
on the subject of medicine. Evidently a
cure had been possible in my case, for that
was the final result. yet until l consulted
Dr. Foo | had been going from bad to
worse. Nothing had done me any good
Disappointment had followed disappoint-
ment. until, weakened in mind and body
had been almost ready to let go my hold
on life. Evidently there must have beer
some radical and fundamental difference
in the methods practiced by my first ply
sicians and those practiced by DR.. Foo to
produce such diametrically opposite
differences in results. Under. the
point of my vitality; under the other
gradually rose from that point to a far
better state than had been mine for years
Now, whence the difference?
In the first place there was radical diff
ference in diagnosis. DR.. Foo asked me no
questions except nay age. He found out
for himself, simply by feeling my pulse
all that he wanted to know. and told me
than had ever known before. Yet every
thing that he said was reasonable and CO.
incided with my experience. A popularity
this diagnosis was that It at once gave me
confidence in DR.. Foo. / felt instinctively
that if he could learn so much about me
in so short a time by such an examination
he ought to be able to prescribe the proper
remedies to cure me. ALL that he said was
stamped with common sense and truth.
did not stop then to wonder where DIR. Foo
acquired this extraordinary faculty, but !
have since concluded that there is no mys-
terry about 1t whatever: that 1t is simply
the result of very long and very patient
training, based. of course, upon an unusual
and inborn aptitude. No one would attempt
to make physician out of a deaf man, and
it would be idle to assert that this skill in
pulse diagnosis could be acquired by any
body and everybody, yet I am firmly con-
vinced that many could acquire it, perhaps
even some of our own white physicians, If
they would devote to it as many years of
patient practice and as much self-denial
in their ways of life, to keep the brain clear
and sharpen the perceptions carried from
the nerves of the finger-tips to the brain,
as DrFoo has cheerfully devoted. This is
too large a subject to discuss in detail in
this place. Hundreds have tested pulse
diagnosis in their own persons and to their
own satisfaction, having proved for them
elves that it is genuine and philosophical,
and the way is open for any other person
who desires to make the same Test
In the second place, my experience with
DR.. Foo strengthened a growing distrust
of the drugs employed by the American
physician in the practice of his profession.
had long suspected that they di dnot ac-
complish what was expected of them, and