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
Transport in Edinburgh inefficient, with much duplication of routes. Most stations closed down and, following the Beeching Axe in the late 1960s, the city was left with only three passenger railway stations (Waverley, Haymarket & Slateford). The South Suburban line was left in place, mainly as a bypass for freight services to avoid the city centre. New stations have since opened since the Beeching Axe; , , , Edinburgh Gateway station and in recent years. The city currently has 12 stations within the City of Edinburgh Council area. Edinburgh itself has a small suburban rail network - the backbone of which is the