Bringing George Washington back from the dead: an IO9 post claims one contemporary physican had a great idea.
[William] Thornton told Washington's wife Martha that he wanted to thaw Washington's body by the fire and have it rubbed vigorously with blankets. Then he planned to perform a tracheotomy so he could insert a bellows into Washington's throat and pump his lungs full of air, and finally to give Washington an infusion of lamb's blood.
More fun with late eighteenth-century medicine at the link.
(thanks to Tim Pendry)
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