Anthropodermic bibliopegy performed, or collected by medical doctors, who have access to cadavers, sometimes those of executed criminals, such as the case of John Horwood in 1821 and the Red Barn Murder in 1828. Another tradition, with less supporting evidence, is that books of erotica or the occult have been bound in human skin. The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh preserves a notebook bound in the skin of the murderer William Burke after his execution and subsequent public dissection by Professor Alexander Monro in 1829. What Lawrence Thompson called "the most famous of all anthropodermic bindings" is exhibited at the Boston
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