Surgeons' Hall demand for bodies for anatomical dissection exceeded supply. Two Irishmen living in Edinburgh, William Burke and William Hare, resorted to murdering victims to supply Knox's anatomy school. Hare turned King's evidence and Burke was tried, found guilty of murder and hanged. His body was dissected by Alexander Monro tertius, the University professor of anatomy, and the museum has on display two items from that notorious episode – Burke's death mask and a pocket book made from his skin. Joseph Bell (1837–1911) was an Edinburgh surgeon who was president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh between 1887–89. He was
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