Not too much to write for this one! It's my reading of a short story from the first issue of Amazing Stories, all the way back in 1928!
Amazing Stories was edited by Hugo Gernsback, and he was already a prominent magazine editor at that time. In fact, several of the stories in the first issue of Amazing Stories were first published in his other magazine, which was originally called The Electrical Experimenter and later on took the subtitle, and later made the title, Science and Invention.
This little bit of fiction was first published in The Strand in 1901, according to my research.
Anyway, if you'd prefer to read The New Accelerator by H.G. Wells, you can check it out here:
https://archive.org/details/AmazingStoriesVolume01Number01/page/n57/mode/2up
It's a fun little story, part sci-fi and part comedy, about a drug that enables a person to act at many times his usual speed. It's pretty out there, considering what we now know about medicine, but I wonder how plausible it sounded to readers in 1926, or in 1901!
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