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Quotation from Personal Memoirs by Ulysses S. Grant
“I spent the night in bathing my feet in hot water and mustard, and putting mustard plasters on my wrists and the back part of my neck, hoping to be cured by morning”
Personal Memoirs, Vol. II, Ch. LXVII
Grant's domestic remedies for a 'sick headache' during the final pursuit of Lee in April 1865.
Citation: "I spent the night in bathing my feet in hot water and mustard, and putting mustard plasters on my wrists and the back part of my neck, hoping to be cured by morning" — Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs, Vol. II, Ch. LXVII. (id personal-memoirs-q10)
Portrait: Ulysses S. Grant 1870-1880, Brady-Handy Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Public domain.
