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 Doctors work on the island of Cebu on the Philippines. Over 120 medical missions were fulfilled in the slum-ambulances. There are constantly two doctors present at this medical station to help those, who are too poor for public medical care services. Moreover, the diagnostics and treatment of tuberculosis is one emphasis of the project. Each year more than 20.000 patients can be examined by German Doctors. On the island of Mindanao on the Philippines, German Doctors started operating in 1985. Since then, more than 1900 medical operations were undertaken. There are three slum-hospitals in Buda, Cagayan de Oro and Valencia