SCIENTIFIC ^VORKS OF GERARD 

 DOAN ON THE HORSE. 



By experience and experimenting for forty-one 

 years, by practical work as a horseshoer, by study- 

 ing the natural horse and all of the changes from the 

 natural to the unnatural, and their effect in all of the 

 different changes, I find the noble animal, roan's and 

 woman's favorite, in a suffering and deformed con- 

 dition, which I shall explain in this work, and stand 

 ready to demonstrate and teach to seekers after 

 knowledge and the truth. 



Everything is a mystery until it comes to light; 

 then it becomes a common thing when understood, like 

 the telegraph, and all things, man being a progressive 

 being. The seekers after knowledge get it; that 

 is the way this great discovery was made, through 

 great mental and practical labor, and with but little 

 help or reward. A large part of my hard-earned 

 money has been used to perfect this work, but it is 

 the long-winded horse that wins the race. Right 

 here, I will say, I will introduce the principles laid 

 down in this book or die a pauper. They are all 

 facts, and have been demonstrated hundreds of times 

 by J. J. Doan, of Auburn city, Cayuga Co., N. Y., 

 and by Oliver Doan, of the same place. They are 

 skillful operators. The horses are all, or nearly all, that 



