Giant Babies of the Future (1937)

Many hoi polloi in the 20th C assumed that the average citizen of the 21st century would betaller . However , a lowly ( and for our role confessedly more entertaining ) contingent assumed that advances in chemistry would breed uproariously super - sized babies . Having tipped the scales at ten Lebanese pound and ten apothecaries' ounce when I was born , it may be difficult to convince someone like my female parent that this was n’t shockingly accurate ; but we have n’t quite gain Paul Bunyan proportions as a mintage just yet .

The article below from the November 21 , 1937 issue of the San Antonio Light ( San Antonio , TX ) references the H.G. Wells novelThe Food of the Gods . In the book , scientist produce a chemical substance predict “ boomfood ” which causes rats to flesh out to the size of it of pony and makes people grow to be forty foot tall . The piece goes on to explicate thatDr . Albert F. Blakesleehad create a new “ elixir of maturation ” calledcolchicinewhich may impart about this tiptop - sized world of the futurity . Of course , colchicine was n’t some magical elixir that would turn masses to giants — nor was it really even “ created ” by Dr. Blakeslee — but it ’s certainly fun to think about what a world overproduction with giant killer caterpillar might look like .

1937 Nov 21 San Antonio Light

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