808 COMMENCEMENT OF THE SESSION 1839-40 
school, M. Gelle, is now publishing a very comprehensive and use- 
ful work on the maladies of cattle. 
Other continental states were not slow in following the example 
of the French; and in the course of a few years, at Vienna, Co- 
penhagen, Dresden, Berlin, Munich, Warsaw, Madrid, in fact, in 
almost every European state of any consequence, a veterinary 
school was established ; and the gratifying result was, that these 
epidemics, if they did not altogether cease, were disarmed of much 
of their fatal character. They have never since re-assumed the 
malignity by which they used to be distinguished. The chief of 
these schools he visited in 1816. 
Last year a school for the education of shepherds was esta- 
blished in Austria. While these schools were multiplying in 
various parts of the continent, one was established at Hanover in 
the reign of George III. 
These institutions continuing to flourish in so many of the con- 
tinental states, it was extraordinary that in Great Britain, the 
nursery of the finest horses and cattle and sheep in the world, no 
institution of the kind existed. Several reflecting and influential 
men regarded this as a national disgrace. Some of them, among 
whom were Mr. Granville Penn, Arthur Young, &c., zealously 
exerted themselves to establish a national school of this kind. 
They were joined by the Odiham Agricultural Society, which 
had determined to send two young men to France in order to study 
under the Professors there. Many noblemen, and influential men 
of science, and the leading men of the medical body, united in the 
accomplishment of this noble object, and the institution in which 
we are now assembled had its origin. 
The first Professor, whose name was Sainbel, was necessarily a 
foreigner. He had distinguished himself at the French schools, and 
readily undertook the establishment of the institution that was 
contemplated in England. M. Sainbel, however, did not long 
retain this honourable situation. He closed his career in 1794, 
after a sudden and short illness, and Messrs. Coleman and Moor- 
croft were appointed to succeed him. In a short time Mr. Moor- 
croft retired, and devoted himself to the private practice which he 
had previously established in the metropolis. After this he ac- 
