Alexander Monro (tertius) Charles found the sight of surgery so upsetting that he stopped trying and turned his attention to natural history. During Monro's tenure as Professor of Anatomy, Edinburgh was rocked by scandal due to the notorious "Burke and Hare murders" in which healthy individuals were intentionally killed in order to supply cadavers for dissection by anatomy lecturers and their students. One of the murderers, William Burke, was hanged on 28 January 1829, after which he was famously dissected at the Edinburgh Medical College by Monro himself. In a letter, Monro dipped his quill pen into Burke's blood and wrote, "This is
Swedish Doctors for Human Rights Russian pro-government media. Swedish Doctors for Human Rights was founded in 2015 by Marcello Ferrada de Noli, a retired Swedish professor emeritus, who was involved with the MIR in his youth in Chile. In spite of its name, not all of its members are medical doctors. One of its founding members, Dr. Leif Elinder, had previously attracted controversy for his personal attacks against the eminent child psychiatrist Christopher Gillberg and his later dismissal from his position at the Swedish Social Insurance Agency for his hard line against applications for sick leave. The organization also runs an online magazine called "The