18/05/2024
The Dr. Feelgood Casebook debuts worldwide on Thursday (5/21) in hardcover or Ebook.
JFK & Jackie, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Tayor and hundreds of icons on M**h by the needle of Dr. Feelgood DR. FEELGOOD CASEBOOK Max Jacobson: Einstein or Frankenstein?
(New York) -The long awaited, “The Dr. Feelgood Casebook” debuts in hardcover and Ebook worldwide on Thursday (5/21) Also soon to be a limited television series.
In 2013, “Dr. Feelgood” by Richard A. Lertzman and Dr. William J. Birnes gave the world the first deep look at Dr. Max Jacobson, who was given the codename, Dr. Feelgood, by the Secret Service
As the hidden physician of President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jackie Kennedy, Dr. Max would inject the first couple, about two times a week, with his M**h cocktail. While the world was on the brink of atomic warfare with the Soviet Union, the President of the United States was under the treatment of a New York physician who altered his mind with 25 milligram injections of methamphetamine laced with steroids, human placenta, sheep s***m, eel extract and essence of monkey go**ds.
In this new follow-up, The Dr. Feelgood Casebook includes the unpublished memoir of Dr. Max Jacobson, in his own words, where he reveals his patients identities, discuss his life, his magic ingredients to his injected methamphetamine shots that affected over 400 well known celebrities. politicians, writers, musicians- including the leaders of the twentieth century who were patients of Dr. Max Jacobson, the man whom the Secret Service code-named “Dr. Feelgood.” As Donald Trump told the authors, “Everybody went to him.”
This German immigrant changed history. He quietly flew under the radar for decades as he drugged world leaders and icons. He was a KGB agent that drugged an American President (JFK).while he had his finger on the atomic bomb.This carefully researched book that took over twenty years and hundreds of interviews of first hand testimony along with archival explorations, is an historic document. He was known by his patients as “Miracle Max”
Lertzman and Birnes reveal, based on their interviews with his Secret Service detail and attending physician (who bare witness) on how Dr. Max over-medicated and injected President Kennedy sending him into a psychotic breakdown at the Carlyle Hotel in New York City-where the President stripped and ran naked up and down the hallways until he was restrained and injected by another doctor(Dr. Lawrence Hatterer) with sedatives.
The list of Dr. Feelgood’s patients (the authors acquired his patient list from his wife) was a Who’s Who of icons who were affected by the “Magic Cocktail” of drugs. This includes Pope Pius XII,, Winston Churchill,.Rod Serling, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Frank Sinatra, Elvis, Marilyn Monroe (who sang “Happy Birthday, Mr. President on M**h), Eddie Fisher and Elizabeth Taylor, President Richard Nixon,.J. Edgar Hoover and many others. The list is incredible.
Now in a sequel to the worldwide bestselling Dr. Feelgood book (Skyhorse) from 2013, here is the damning evidence straight from Dr. Max Jacobson. The authors purchased his unpublished manuscripts, his office records, photographs, written dissertations and more.
This new book will reveal all this evidence, straight the the records of Dr. Feelgood and testimonies of those who were patients including Eddie Fisher, Gore Vidal, Lee Radziwill and countless others. Historical records and a book that will rock the foundations of how you will look at twentieth century history.
From the book:The navigator/bombardier tucked into the tiny cockpit in his Luftwaffe Heinkel He 111 was focused on his instruments as his squadron crossed the coast of France and headed over the English Channel. Soon, he knew he would be caught in the beams of the British air defense searchlights as the ground plotters tracked the squadron’s progress on their Dowding screens. Soon, the sky around him would come alive with explosions from bursting anti-aircraft shells. And soon, his Messerschmitt fighter es**rt would peel off to engage the RAF Spitfires that were already swarming over the Channel. Staying alert was his only hope of survival as he navigated through the darkness, alone in the universe, it seemed, except for the crackle through his earphones. Even without looking he reached into one of the pockets in his flight jacket to remove a small vial of capsules. He unfastened his oxygen mask just enough to slip a capsule beneath his tongue. Then he swallowed it and within minutes felt a surge of tension through his entire body. He was awake. Fighting awake. The capsule was a blessing. Pervitin, the very drug Hi**er himself took.
Actor Robert Cummings looked out from the doorway of his dressing room at his co-star Julie Newmar. Their series, “My Living Doll,” was getting eyeballs. They had an audience, but it was not the audience that followed “Love that Bob” throughout the 1950s and not the audience that followed Bob Cummings. As hard as it was to admit, these were Julie Newmar’s fans, followers of the statuesque actress who had made the Al Capp character of “Stupefyin’ Jones” come alive on the Broadway stage six years earlier in the musical Lil’ Abner. As for Cummings, looking at the twilight of his career that had spanned Alfred Hitchcock’s motion pictures across the years to one of there biggest television series of the 1950s, he needed another boost. His still had a few vials and syringes left of vitamin shots from the last time he’d seen his doctor. Vitamins, sure, but he knew that there were other compounds in that serum from the glowing vials that his doctor, Max Jacobson, had given him.Cummings needed an injection of the serum in the vials. He needed a pick-me-up, but as he stood in the doorway of his dressing room, he could see that Julie Newmar was looking at him. He managed a smile and walked over to her, needle in hand, and showed her how he injected himself in the ankle. Then he asked her if she wanted a shot. He had extra. It would give her a lift, he said. But Julie Newmar decline, and Cummings went back into his own dressing room to prepare for another episode of the short-lived series, My Living Doll. It would be cancelled along with the rest of Cummings’ career.Five years earlier when he and Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling were taking a break from filming Cumming’s starring role in “King Nine Will Not Return,” having dinner in Fresno, Serling, responding through thick cigarette smoke to a health and fitness joke from Cummings about his dinner choice–a massive steak smothered in gravy, mushrooms, and onions–said, “with all that s**t Max Jacobson is putting into us, you’re complaining?”
Serling understood, as did Cummings, that Dr. Max Jacobson’s injections were more than just vitamin supplements. They were the highly addictive and, in large doses, the psychologically destructive drug, methamphetamine. It was legal in 1960, legal when Jacobson had treated New York’s literati and Hollywood’s A-List celebrities with it, and still legal when Senator John F. Kennedy showed up at his private office to receive his first injection. It addicted him to the drug, too, and, ultimately, as JFK’s brother Bobby Kennedy predicted, it destroyed his presidency.
The story of Max “Dr. Feelgood” Jacobson had been lurking beneath the surface of history for over fifty years, submerged by Kennedy-family associates and major media outlets. But, with the publication of our book Dr. Feelgood (New York: Skyhorse, 2013), story that began with the story of Robert Cummings and his precipitous fall from Hollywood grace to being carried away in a strait jacket to an insane asylum, the legend of Dr. Feelgood, the doctor who drugged President John F. Kennedy came back to life.
It would have been too easy for us to have joined the chorus of those condemning Max Jacobson as a charlatan and a quack. If anything Max Jacobson’s greatest flaw was that he suffered from a Frankenstein Complex, the delusional manifestation that he and he alone held the secret to rejuvenation, extended longevity, and, quite possibly, eternal life. Sounds crazy, right? But Jacobson, a chemist as well as a physician, truly believed that he held the key.
Therefore, to present both sides of Max Jacobson’s life, lived amidst a throng of detractors and true believers, we have edited this casebook, statements from Jacobson himself, an article on living better through chemistry that he wrote over sixty years ago, and testimonials and condemnations from those he knew, who worked for him, and his patients.Who was Dr. Max Jacobson? Was he the Einstein of medicine or the Frankenstein?
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