The Consultation Letters of Dr William Cullen (1710-1790) at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
[ID:2230] From: Earl Dunbar Douglas (Hamilton) (Lord Selkirk, 4th Earl of Selkirk) / To: Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) / Regarding: Lord Basil William Douglas (Lord Daer) (Patient), Lady Mary Douglas (Patient), Helen Douglas (Patient), Elizabeth Douglas (Eliza) (Patient), Katherine Douglas (Patient) / 11 June 1782 / (Incoming)
Letter from the Earl of Selkirk concerning his son, Lord Daer, and his other children. He asks Cullen to write to Lady Selkirk at St Mary's Isle with advice on a 'way of managing the influenza'.
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Metadata
Field | Data |
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DOC ID | 2230 |
RCPE Catalogue Number | CUL/1/2/1299 |
Main Language | English |
Document Direction | Incoming |
Date | 11 June 1782 |
Annotation | None |
Type | Authorial original |
Enclosure(s) | No enclosure(s) |
Autopsy | No |
Recipe | No |
Regimen | No |
Letter of Introduction | No |
Case Note | No |
Summary | Letter from the Earl of Selkirk concerning his son, Lord Daer, and his other children. He asks Cullen to write to Lady Selkirk at St Mary's Isle with advice on a 'way of managing the influenza'. |
Manuscript Incomplete? | No |
Evidence of Commercial Posting | No |
Case
Cases that this document belongs to:
Case ID | Description | Num Docs |
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[Case ID:364] |
Case of Lord Daer (Basil Douglas), whose symptoms leave his family concerned that he may have consumption. |
7 |
[Case ID:1528] |
Case of the children of Lord and Lady Selkirk who are at risk of influenza. |
3 |
People linked to this document
Person ID | Role in document | Person |
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[PERS ID:886] | Author | Earl Dunbar Douglas (Lord Selkirk, 4th Earl of Selkirk) |
[PERS ID:1] | Addressee | Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) |
[PERS ID:1070] | Patient | Lady Mary Douglas |
[PERS ID:885] | Patient | Lord Basil William Douglas (Lord Daer) |
[PERS ID:2291] | Patient | Helen Douglas |
[PERS ID:2292] | Patient | Elizabeth Douglas (Eliza) |
[PERS ID:2293] | Patient | Katherine Douglas |
[PERS ID:1] | Patient's Physician / Surgeon / Apothecary | Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) |
[PERS ID:3222] | Other Physician / Surgeon | Mr Alexander Maxwell |
[PERS ID:886] | Patient's Relative / Spouse / Friend | Earl Dunbar Douglas (Lord Selkirk, 4th Earl of Selkirk) |
[PERS ID:1017] | Patient's Relative / Spouse / Friend | Lady Helen Douglas (Lady Selkirk) |
[PERS ID:1069] | Other | Alexander Douglas |
[PERS ID:1071] | Other | Dunbar Douglas |
[PERS ID:1072] | Other | Earl Thomas Douglas (5th Earl of Selkirk) |
[PERS ID:1073] | Other | John Maxwell (of Terraughtie and Munshes) |
[PERS ID:1068] | Other | John Douglas |
Places linked to this document
Role in document | Specific Place | Settlements / Areas | Region | Country | Global Region | Confidence |
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Place of Writing | Dumfries | Borders | Scotland | Europe | certain | |
Destination of Letter | Cullen's House / Mint Close | Edinburgh | Edinburgh and East | Scotland | Europe | certain |
Mentioned / Other | London | London and South-East | England | Europe | certain | |
Mentioned / Other | St Mary's Isle | Borders | Scotland | Europe | certain | |
Mentioned / Other | Berkeley Square | London | London and South-East | England | Europe | certain |
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1782
I give you this trouble to beg you
will as soon as possible write to Lady Selkirk
at St Mary's 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 Alexander 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
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he coughd most excessively: but he had not followed the above
rules, for he posted here, & drank freely with his old friends
here. But his cough terrify'd me when I thought of Daer,
so pray write soon & particularly. Daer has been vastly
well since we got home.
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
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To
Dr Cullen
Mint
Edinburgh
✍
Lord Selkirk
C the Influenza
June 1782
VXIV. p.106
Diplomatic Text
1782
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
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he coughd most excessively: but he had not followed the above
rules, for he posted here, & drank freely with his old friends
here. But his cough terrify'd me when I thought of Daer,
so pray write soon & particularly. Daer has been vastly
well since we got home.
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
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To
Dr Cullen
Mint
Edinr
✍
Lord Selkirk
C the Influenza
June 1782
VXIV. p.106
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