THOMAS'S MASSACHUSETTS SPY OR WORCESTER GAZETTE, May 29, 1799

• Dr. Benjamin Say
• Humane Society

The front page has a lengthy letter: "To Doctor Benjamin Say, President of the Humane Society of Philadelphia". Page 2 has much news from Europe on the Napoleonic War. 
Four pages, several creases, good condition.

Background: The front page of the May 29, 1799 edition of Thomas’s Massachusetts Spy or Worcester Gazette prominently features an open communication addressed to Dr. Benjamin Say, President of the Humane Society of Philadelphia, focusing on contemporary 18th-century medical advances in resuscitation. Founded to prevent premature burial and save victims of apparent death—primarily through drowning, strangulation, or extreme cold—the Humane Society utilized public communications like this letter to share life-saving guidelines, experimental methods for restoring suspended animation (such as artificial respiration and bodily warmth), and first-person case reports across the early American states. By reprinting this detailed exchange on its cover page, Isaiah Thomas's regional newspaper served as a vital vehicle for spreading public health knowledge, providing rural and urban readers alike with standardized, emergency medical instructions endorsed by leading medical figures of the post-Revolutionary period.