The New Accelerator
by H. G. Wells
The narrator and Professor Gibberne test the professor’s potion that will speed up their metabolisms by a factor of a thousand or more.
— Michael Main
I sat down. “Give me the potion,” I said. “If the worst comes to the worst it will
save having my hair cut, and that I think is one of the most hateful duties of a
civilized man. How do you take the mixture?”
“The New Accelerator” by H. G. Wells, Strand Magazine, December 1901.