The Food of the Gods and How it Came to Earth by H.G. Wells is about a group of scientists who invent a food that accelerates the growth of children and turns them into giants when they become adults. Excerpt: "In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending, for the most part, to become elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but who dislike extremely to be called—"Scientists." They dislike that word so much that from the columns of Nature, which was from the first their distinctive and characteristic paper, it is as carefully excluded as if it were..."