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head was safe on his shoulders, and probably concluding that 
absence of his body from Paris was better than the presence 
of mind needed to keep his head and neck connected if he 
stayed there, he resigned and returned to Lyons. 
His next appointment was that of Demonstrator of Com¬ 
parative Anatomy at Montpelier, where he stayed for five 
years. Again we find him in Paris as equerry to Louis XVI., 
endeavoring to regain his place in the Alfort school, but the 
effort being vain, he visits England in 1788; marries; again 
revisits France at the outbreak of the Revolution, but finding 
the times unsafe, he obtains leave to go again to England on 
pretence of buying horses for his patron’s stud. The second 
head to fall into the basket was that of his good friend, Mons. 
Flesseille, so Sainbel lost friend and annuity together, and 
his patrimonial estate was confiscated. His fortunes were 
advanced in his adopted country by his skillful dissection of 
Eclipse, and his plans for the establishment of a veterinary 
school were discussed and adopted on the nth of February, 
1791. The President of the school was the Duke of North¬ 
umberland, and one of the Vice-Presidents was the eminent 
English surgeon John Hunter. On March 22d it was re¬ 
solved that a temporary stabling for fifty horses and a forge 
house for shoeing should be built at St. Pancras. 
The new enterprise was doing well and the future looked 
bright for its founder, when on Sunday, August 4th, 1793, 
Sainbel laid aside the scalpel for ever, and on August 21st, 
1793, the founder of the London school passed away in his 
fortieth year. He was buried at the expense of the college 
in the little Savoy chapel in the Strand. Looking through his 
book one is struck with the grasp the man had on all parts of 
his profession ; he was thorough. His preliminary discourse 
was a brillant resume on the progress of his art from the days 
of Chiron the Thessolian to the establishment of the schools 
of his own land. His lectures on Farriery are instructive 
reading to-day. The description of the high operation for 
quittor is most excellent, and it is interesting to note that he 
used the dressing of tinct. aloes and myrrh as many of us do 
to-day. His essay on grease has interest, in that it describes 
