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Conspiracy theories are very common in today’s society because we want an answer that makes perfect sense as to how situations can occur. When the reasoning to situations does not make sense we may begin to question or become skeptic of the events. Our skepticism creates us to think of other possibilities that could make sense resulting in conspiracy theories. A conspiracy theory that is still questioned today is how Dr. Max Jacobson treated his patients. Dr. Max Jacobson was from Germany and moved to New York after leaving Berlin, when he came to the United States he treated John F. Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Elvis and many more well-known figures. It is said his treatments involved meth.There are visual pictures indicating that these accusations may have some truth to them. Let’s explore this theory that Dr. Max Jacobson gave celebrities meth.
Dr. Max Jacobson was a mysterious man. Jacobsonwent by a few other names like “Miracle Max” and “Dr.Feelgood”. Jacobson treated many patients with a shot that made them feel good but no one really ever knew what was in the shot.
One of Dr. Jacobson’s patients stated “instant euphoria. You feel like Superman. You're flying. Ideas come at the speed of light. You go 72 hours straight without so much as a coffee break” (Bryk 1). With these kinds of statements you have to wonder what is in these shots Miracle Max is giving. In an article written about Dr. Max Jacobson they stated “Of course Jacobson's mixtures merely concealed his patients' symptoms without meeting their emotional needs.” These “mixtures” were later found to 30 to 50 milligrams of amphetamines - the mood-elevating neural energizers also known as speed - mixed with multivitamins, steroids,enzymes, hormones, and solubilized placenta, bone marrow, and animal organ cells (Bryk 1).
The fact that during the time Max Jacobson was treating his patients and no one knew what was in the medicine given but it made most of them feel so good is very strange. A few of Jacobson’s patients would have serious unexplainable symptoms after receiving Jacobson’s treatments like going blind for two days before they realized what Dr. Feelgood was giving them wasn’t so good. Another mysterious thing about Jacobson is that he would meet basically anyone who would ask for him and arrange many private meetings with them, including people like Marilyn Monroe, John F Kennedy, Aretha Franklin, Elvis Presley and many more celebrities. Some of these celebrities would see Dr. Jacobson up to five times a day! Dr. Jacobson was in such demand at time that a patient of his stated “I sometimes came to his waiting room at 3am and there’d be 20 people sitting around, waiting their turn. Speed people can’t sleep. They are high all the time” (Rennell 1). Overall those years of treatment Dr. Jacobson has since had his medical license taken away, and cannot practice medicine anymore.
In the medical practice of Dr. Max Jacobson many conspiracy theories have evolved. The first conspiracy theory suggests that Dr. Max Jacobson was giving injections with methamphetamine to President John F.Kennedy and many other celebrities. This theory is based on the pictures and documented visits with the people believed to have received Jacobson, and even some statements they have said describing Dr. Jacobson. The second conspiracy theory suggest the Jacobson actually believed his remedies for curing people with his shots was actually working. Jacobson could’ve really believed that his shots were curing people and out of the goodness in his heart he felt like he should go help people who complain of pain. The final theory is that Jacobson knew about meth’s side effects and he wanted to get people hooked on the drug to make a living as a good drug dealer. Jacobson knew what was in the shots and he wanted to sell them as drugs and allow people to get hooked on them so he could make money to support his new life in America. Since Jacobson was new to America he could’ve came to introduce this new shot with meth to get people to continuously want it in order to get paid and make his own living. Jacobson was educated about meth in Germany, he possibly learned about this substance from Hitler and his people.
Overall I believe the first theory is true because that is what evidence points to most. One of the most shocking things about Jacobson’s shots is that he was actually able to give them to President John F. Kennedy and that he was even allowed to inject anybody with these shots and them not knowing what was truly in them. One of the most famous and outrageous actions caused by this shot was when John F. Kennedy had just received at a shot at the Carlyle Hotel and he began to act insane, he walked around nude, and the secret service had to try to control him. Jacobson and Kennedy met so much there is record of Jacobson visiting the United Sates White House a total of thirty time in the log book (Rennell 1).
Many patients felt differently about the shots. For example John F. Kennedy said “I don’t care if it’s horse pee,” JFK said. “It makes me feel good” (Getlen 1). And other patients felt differently, like how this patient stated “My last shot was a blood-red thing about a foot long. I went blind for two days, and when my eyesight finally came back, I threw away all my speed and hung up my works on the living room lampshade”(Bryk1). In comparing and contrasting the shots whether the patient felt like it was the best shot they had ever gotten or the worst shot they ever got, they overall effects were terrible to their body, especially because it was intravenously injected into their bodies.
Overall after Jacobson moved from Germany to America to start his own injection business and after treating hundreds of patients, including many celebrities, Jacobson changed the lives and behaviors of many people at the time by giving them injections they didn’t even really know about. Jacobson also had changed the views we had on some major iconic people now that we know they were on meth.
Work Cited
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