[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]

apothecaries were mixing their OWN aspirin by about 1840.

BAYER simply made an INDUSTRY of what local druggists had been doing for DECADES!

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