[4CJ]

In you 853 you wrote I love it. You can't say anything without it being easily debunked, can you? Aspirin wasn't invented until 1899..

Bravo Sierra! Aspirin as we know it is acetylsalicylic acid. An application for a German patent was rejected, because in fact acetylsalicylic acid was not a new substance, having been first synthesized in 1853 by French chemist Charles Gerhardt, in impure form, and later in crystalline form by German chemist Carl J. Kraut.

Gerhart discovered how to "buffer" aspirin in 1853, but the purified unbuffered aspirin (salicylic acid) was produced in 1838 by Italian chemist Raffaele Piria.

Grant could have easily ingested unbuffered 'aspirin'.

[Non-Sequitur]

Grant could have easily ingested unbuffered 'aspirin'.

No he couldn't. Nobody was marketing salicylic acid in any form under any name until Bayer in the 1890's. Where would Grant have gotten it?

[stand watie]

once more, American Indians had made/used ASPIRIN as medicine for HUNDREDS of years BEFORE the Europeans "discovered the new world".

the DAMNyankee coven enjoys posting KNOWING FICTION, as they WRONGLY believe that everyone else on the forum is either too ignorant or too lazy to check their nonsense against FACTS.

free dixie,sw

[Heyworth]

You're really painting yourself into a corner here by trying to back up Watie. He makes a crackpot statement, based on another of his non-existent sources, and you're actually trying to make the case that Grant might have been taking unbuffered salicylic acid at the Wilderness? Based on what? That an Italian chemist had produced it in a lab a few years before?

As for "Aspirin", yes, the chemical substance was developed earlier, but aspirin, as "aspirin" was trademarked by Bayer in 1899 and then marketed around the world.

Now, if you've got some evidence that Grant was taking some form of salicylic acid, buffered or unbuffered, at the Wilderness, let's see it. Otherwise, it's no different than claiming that he could have been using tupperware because the first plastic had been invented in 1862. Or maybe that because there had been U-Boats in WW2, one of them might be on display in Galveston.