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 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