| Description Of Item | Report that on 23 January 1771 the writer was informed by Mr Wilson that he had inoculated his two children for the small pox 'from a lad that had been sent on shore and put under his care from a tender in the road'. As a result the writer took a further seven children to be inoculated after the Dimsdale method but found the lad so changed that he doubted whether it was small pox. He inoculated anyway but the children did react as expected. One child was the daughter of William Donald. They are inoculated again and the three children who had had a reaction before did not get infected. Unsigned and undated. The report is unsigned but research by David Shuttleton of University of Glasgow, Scotland indicates that the author is Gavin Fullarton as he refers to the report in his letter at CUL/1/2/86. |