Really? Then why, in your original post on the subject (#783), did you say "(i do NOT know that to be a FACT! i read it some years ago in a memoir by one of the unionist officers"?
Now you're defending it to the death and saying that the information comes from "grant's own doctor," not from some anonymous officer. Did this guy write a book? Is it right between "The Annals of Old Missouri" and "Yachts Against Subs" in the Watie Library?
Furthermore you didn't say Grant was chewing on some willow bark. You said he was taking aspirin, which is a far different thing than salicylic acid. The latter is intolerably bad on the stomach. The former wasn't invented until after the Civil War. It's as simple as that.
Once again, you've lied, gotten caught, and are now digging yourself in deeper.
Say, do you need Dr. Lubar's e-mail address?
He is nothing if not consistent, is he?
Man I would love to see stand's library. Betcha could learn a heap there.