A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 2 (of 2) by Charles Creighton

1786. In the middle of this season the influenza returned, and colds and

coughs were epidemical. 1788 [spring]. A species of influenza of the pestilential kind, akin to that of 1782, has almost constantly returned in spring and autumn since that time ... [summer] A species of influenza, as in the spring, and it is also at Edinburgh. 1789 [spring]. Influenza returned. Even dogs affected.