TIL Ewen MacDonald was hanged in 1752 but regained consciousness after being taken to the dissection theatre. When the surgeon who was meant to dissect his body discovered the supposedly dead man sitting upright on the operating table, he promptly bludgeoned MacDonald to death with a mallet.

http://books.google.co.uk/books?output=text&id=YbDQAAAAMAAJ&q=188#v=onepage&q&f=false



Submitted April 15, 2015 at 03:41AM by GuidedBySteven http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/32m5t5/til_ewen_macdonald_was_hanged_in_1752_but/