DR. STANLEY W. JACOB, M.D., F.A.C.S. BIOGRAPHY
DR. STANLEY W. JACOB, M.D., F.A.C.S.
(1924-2015)
Dr. Jacob was a Harvard-trained surgeon, fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and former director of research of the Department of Surgery at the University of Oregon Medical School (now Oregon Health & Science University [OHSU] where he held an endowed chair).
He received his bachelor's degree at age 21 (Phi Beta Kappa) and his doctorate in medicine (cum laude) at age 24 in 1948.
Dr. Jacob then completed an internship, residency, and three-year research fellowship at Harvard Medical School and its teaching hospitals. Dr. Jacob soon became chief resident in surgery, Harvard Service, at Boston City Hospital.
During his early years as a surgeon, Dr. Jacob held a five-year Markle Scholarship in Medical Sciences.
He is a retired full colonel in the U.S. Army Medical Corps Reserve and served in Japan during the Korean War.
From 1957 to 1960, he was the Kemper Foundation's Research Scholar for the American College of Surgeons. During this period, he was involved in research on kidney transplantation technology at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and developed methods to freeze kidneys safely without the organs becoming physically damaged. However, it did not allow the kidneys to be usable as transplants.
Around this time, he relocated to Portland to head the transplantation research at the University of Oregon Medical School. During his investigations, he encountered a scientific paper written by a British scientist about various chemical compounds that permitted freezing red blood cells "alive." One of the compounds was DMSO.
After a little research, Dr. Jacob found some DMSO to use in his research.
Dr. Jacob was then joined by a chemist who shared his experiences with DMSO, and they began working together in research activities on DMSO and MSM one of DMSO's metabolite.
They found that DMSO had many medical properties. DMSO was a diuretic. It had antibacterial effects and even rendered resistant bacteria vulnerable to the same antibiotics to which they had previously been resistant.
With regard to medical transplantation, his original interest in DMSO, the compound turned out to be valuable as a cryoprotective agent, as a preservative for transplantation bound frozen bone marrow, platelets, embryos, ova, and sperm cells.
Today it is used globally for this purpose. It did not, however, preserve an organ as large as a kidney, which was Dr. Jacob’s original interest.
By 1965, more than 1,500 DMSO studies had been conducted, involving about 100,000 patients, indicating a prescriptive role for a host of problems, primarily musculoskeletal inflammatory conditions.
DMSO is used in approximately 125 countries, including Canada, Germany, Great Britain, and Switzerland. As of 1999, it was estimated that worldwide it had helped more than a half-billion patients. It is safer, less expensive, and at least as effective for a variety of health conditions for which less effective and more costly treatments are used. As of 1999, DMSO’s benefits have been the subject of more than 55,000 studies worldwide.
DMSO is not really a drug, it is more like a multi-functional "therapeutic principle", an agent with hundreds of properties and applications in the body.
Dr. Jacob’s University of Oregon Medical School clinic was allowed to use DMSO and MSM through a special law passed by the Oregon Legislative Assembly.
In the late 1970’s, through his and other research done with the help of other members of the university’s faculty, and research done by a pharmaceutical manufacturer, Dr. Jacob realized that the use of synthetic MSM, DMSO’s main metabolite, as a nutritional supplement provides many of the same health benefits as DMSO.
And most importantly for its ease of use as a nutritional supplement, without the inconvenient odor associated with the use of DMSO, and the need for medical prescription.
Dr. Jacob started using MSM in his medical research clinic in the early 1980’s and is the first and only research medical practician who has used MSM on more than 30,000 patients worldwide. He also treated approximately 13,000 patients with DMSO.
In all, Dr. Jacob has authored one hundred and seventy scientific articles and sixteen books. He is the co-author of “Structure and Function in Man” Fifth edition 1982, one of the major anatomy-physiology texts used in modern medicine.
It is important here to mention that the forty-three thousand patients treated by Dr. Jacob were treated free of charge as Dr. Jacob was treating his patients as part of his research on DMSO and MSM, all with the goal to advance the medical science knowledge of the importance of both DMSO and MSM. The clinic’s patients came from all over but mainly from the Portland, Oregon area just by word of mouth. DR. Jacob’s goal was just to build a database of patients he treated with the observed treatment results in regard to different illnesses. He ended up being able to associate his results to establish different property benefits of both DMSO and MSM.
The clinic ran on a “shoestring,” funded by grants and donations only. I was even told by his long-time research assistant Rita Randall, R.N., that Dr. Jacob was the antithesis of a medical doctor as he would give his shirt to help anyone in need of medical care and was always broke.
He lived with only one thing in mind: finding as much as possible all the possible benefits MSM could provide to his patients. And unfortunately, he did not take care of his body and mind by taking time to exercise both. He was at his desk from five in the morning to seven to eight at night five and sometime six days a week with very few weeks of vacation a year.
Dr. Jacob worked tirelessly to try to understand the role of MSM in our lives. Doing his work was not easy as he was continuously haunted by the FDA pushed by Big Pharma that realized his research will disturb their business.
Dr. Jacob is one of the greatest medical researchers of the nineteenth century who has discovered the most important health deficiency of the nineteenth century, and MSM will eventually be recognized as the most needed nutritional supplement to provide our body’s sulfur needs for a normal life. As mentioned in his books and on this website, sulfur has been known and reported as deficient in our diet by many scientists even before Dr. Jacob started to experiment with MSM in his research medical clinic.
It is said that penicillin is one of the greatest medical discoveries of the twentieth century. I believe that just like penicillin, the importance of and the use of MSM will eventually be recognized as one of the greatest health benefit discoveries so people experience fewer debilitating diseases to deal with.
EXTREMELY CONCENTRATED ON FINDING AND TABULATING ALL THE POSSIBLE BENEFITS OF USING MSM TO ALLEVIATE PAIN, I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT DR. JACOB EVER REALIZED THE IMPORTANCE OF HIS WORK ON THE FUTURE OF HUMANS AND ALL ANIMAL LIVES.
IF YOU MADE IT HERE READING ALL THE PREVIOUS PAGES, YOU CAN CONGRATULATE YOURSELF AS ONE OF A VERY FEW THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE IN THE WHOLE WORLD WHO REALLY KNOW WHAT MSM IS, WHY VERY FEW HAVE EVER HERD ABOUT IT, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY WHY EVERYONE NEEDS MSM FOR GOOD HEALTH.
Please go to: "MSM MAY HELP THESE CONDITIONS" to see if any health condition that affects you or any of your relatives and friends is mentioned.