The Royal Humane Society in 1799 awarded him its silver medal ‘for his medical services in the cause of humanity vitam ob restitutam’, and he afterwards became one of the society's medical assistants.

Reece's publications include: The medical guide, for the use of the clergy, heads of families, and practitioners in medicine and surgery (1802); Observations on the Anti-Phthisical Properties of Lichen Islandicus, or Iceland Moss (1803); Letters Addressed to Mic. G. Prendergast on the Present State of Medicine in Great Britain (1810); The Chemical Guide (1814); and Statement of the last illness and death of Mrs. [Joanna] Southcott, with the appearances on dissection (1815).