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I give you this trouble to beg you
will as soon as possible write to Lady Selkirk
at St: M: Isle by Dumfries: & inform her what is
the proper things to be attended to, & way of
managing the Influenza in case it gets
into our place, or family. It is very frequent
here, & some people confined to bed with
fever & sore throat, & their breast affected: &
cough much.

You may be sure I am anxious lest it
should attack Daer: so pray write about him.

I saw an old scholar of yours last night from
London mr Alexr Maxwell Surgeon, son to
Terraughte: he said few escaped it, & those who
were most Doctord were worst. That it affected
Head throat & breast, with fever, & cough: that as
much quietness as possible was good, some glasses
of Port, & the warm bath. He himself has it
very much in point of cough: for indeed

I am this far on my road to London where I mean
to make a very short stay: I expect to see my other
four boys there or in its {illeg} (↑neighbourhood↑), so I would wish
to have a line from you to the same effect there: but
as I dont yet know where I shall Lodge, pray be so good as
inclose it under cover to mr Andrew Stewart Berkley Square.

To Dr Cullen

To
Dr Cullen
Mint
Edinr

✍
Lord Selkirk
C the Influenza
June 1782
VXIV. p.106