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 1,4 Mio. €). In the medical health centers as well as ambulances and rolling clinics of their long-term projects, German Doctors e.V. offer free medical service for the poorest of the poor. In order to ensure the continuity, the deployment of doctors is organised with overlapping transition phases. Therewith, there are always several German doctors on site. In order to facilitate the adaption to the local culture, mentality and religion of the patients, the doctors work together with local nurses and health workers. and try to instruct them to basic medical supply. Since 1983, more than 3100 doctors were involved