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
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