The institution of the Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: with the rules for regulating said Society, and the methods of treatment to be used with persons apparently dead; with a number of recent cases proving the happy effects therof.

  • Massachusetts Humane Society
Date:
1788
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The institution of the Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: with the rules for regulating said Society, and the methods of treatment to be used with persons apparently dead; with a number of recent cases proving the happy effects therof. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fey) Premiums adjudged by the Society. Pw STE Society with great pleafure announce ¢o the f public the exertions of fuch of their fellow- citizens as have been inftrumental in faving from death a number of perfons who muft otherwife inevi- tably have perifhed ; and as a reward for fuch exer tions they have adjudged the following Premiums :— To Mr. Sloane, for faving a Boy-who had fallen through the ice into the mill-pond, and who had re- peatediy funk to the bottom when young Mr. Sloane difcovered him, and without taking off his cloaths plung’d into the water and brought him to the fhore, where by the ufe of proper means he was recovered. —One Guinea. To Mr. Gleafon, for a fimilar exertion, ia. faving the child of Mr. Hollis, who had fallen from a wharf and was drowning ; the fum of Que Guinea. To Ebenezer Herring, jun. for faving a Boy who had broken through the ice and fallen into the channel in Charles-river ; the fum of Twenty Shillings. ~The Boy in this inftance faved himfelf from finking by holding upon the edge of the ice until he was drage’d out of the water by young Herring, with no {mall rifque of breaking in himfeif.
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