Anthropodermic bibliopegy performed, or collected by medical doctors, who have access to cadavers, sometimes those of executed criminals, such as the case of John Horwood in 1821 and the Red Barn Murder in 1828. Another tradition, with less supporting evidence, is that books of erotica or the occult have been bound in human skin. The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh preserves a notebook bound in the skin of the murderer William Burke after his execution and subsequent public dissection by Professor Alexander Monro in 1829. What Lawrence Thompson called "the most famous of all anthropodermic bindings" is exhibited at the Boston
German Doctors for Developing Countries City with six long-term doctors, who are taking care of the poor patients. German Doctors started their work on the “Smokey Mountains”, the dump sites of Manila, and the huge slums of Tondo. In Bagong Silang, an eviction landscape with 300.000 inhabitants, a medical centre was built in 1983. Since 2002, a medical rolling clinic team continuously visits the indigenous people of the neighbouring island Mindoro. Over the years, the focus of operation has shifted from Manila to Mindoro. Since 2002, more than 470 medical missions have taken place. In Chittagong, the second largest city of Bangladesh, German Doctors work