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done was to get some bills printed to advertise tliis 

 great discovery and science and announce my corning. 

 This bill was drawn up in this way : 



" PROF. GERARD DOAN, 

 TnE CHAMPION HORSE-SHOER OF AMERICA, 



Having made horse-sboeing a business for many years, and study- 

 ing the natural borse and all of tbe cbanges from tbe 

 natural to tbe unnatural, its effect in all 

 of tbe different cbanges, bas 

 ' made tbe great 



dis- 

 covery bow to cure 

 foundered borses of long stand- 

 ing — water, cbest, and grain founder; perisbed 

 sboulders ; remove all air-puffs, corns, coffin-joint lameness, 

 bo'jlers, sbufllers, single-footers, and borses tbat bop bebind in speed- 

 ing. All these cures I will perform without medicine. 

 I will deliver lectures free. All owners 

 of borses and mules will do 



well to attend. 

 I will be at your place, etc. 



I did not advertise on this bill all I could do with, 

 out medicine. I well knew this was more than thev 

 could stand. I put on " professor " because I thought 

 it would help me. They like the sound of these big- 

 sounding titles. I have seen as big fools with " pro- 

 fessor" attached to their names as I ever did without; 

 and my attaching it to my name did not help me any, 

 as experience proved. After this bill was drawn up, 



