The science of oriental medicine : a concise discussion of its principles and methods, biographical sketches of its leading practitioners, its treatment of various prevalent diseases, useful information on matters of diet, exercise and hygiene / compiled by the Foo and Wing Herb Company.
- Foo & Wing Herb Company (Los Angeles, Calif.)
- Date:
- 1897
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The science of oriental medicine : a concise discussion of its principles and methods, biographical sketches of its leading practitioners, its treatment of various prevalent diseases, useful information on matters of diet, exercise and hygiene / compiled by the Foo and Wing Herb Company. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![♦ J% AN OPEN LETTER Addressed to Dr. C. L. Stoddard—Some Pointed Questions on Med ical Theories, Practices and Ethics. A Brief Discussion of the State Law Forbidding the Practice of Medicine Without a License as Applied to Chinese Practitioners. Comparison of the Principles and Methods of the Latter With Those Professed by the Regular Schools. A Challenge to Practical Tests of Fitness, Success and Results—One Thousand Dollars Offered as a Forfeit. [From the San Bernardino Times-Index of December 28.] LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 25, 1895. Dr. C. L. Stoddard, San Bernardino. Dear Sir: Early in the present month you caused the arrest of Dr. T. Foo Yuen, and charged him with practicing medicine without a license. Although the case did not come to trial, owing presumably to a lack of evidence and a consequent indisposition on the part of the District Attorney's office to proceed to trial, yet your animus in the matter was sufficiently shown by the complaint and the arrest. We have been studying over this since the dismissal of the case, and have been unable to come to a satisfactory conclusion as to why you should have gone out of your way to injure a man who never injured you, and we have decided to address a few inquiries to you, through the public press, in the hope that you will define your position before the community and place your exact motives in this prosecution upon record. The public at large is interested in this question, because it affects certain rights and privileges. Naturally, the first question is: What harm have we done you? We came into San Bernardino a few weeks ago and advertised our herbal remedies for sale. Not one person has bought these remedies who had, or could have had, the slightest hope of being benefited by you or your fellow practitioners. They had all been abandoned by the rational schools and had been given up to a condition of hopeless physical misery, which meant also continued mental dis- tress, or else they had tried the usual methods of cure until they were dis-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21070398_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
