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fatal in bad cases, and even in mild ones 

 it more or less unfits the sufferer for severe 

 work for the remainder of his life. As a rule, 

 not even one per cent, of a shipload of horses 

 which had stood in stalls during a month's 

 passage would have laminitis before disem- 

 barkation, but probably 50 per cent, of them 

 would get it if they walked and trotted for 

 ten miles immediately after landing. Even 

 a walk of two miles from the pier to the 

 remount depot at Port Elizabeth has been 

 a fruitful means of setting up laminitis in 

 the horses whose feet showed no signs of 

 this disease on landing. I have seen scores 

 of similar cases at Calcutta. Here the danger 

 is inversely proportionate to the length of 

 time between landing and resumption of work. 



Horses landed off a ship in which they have 



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