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Thalidomide I think you're thinking of, but deserves own thread!
Possibly but wasn't that marketed much later? Yes, but something like it.
Where on the freak circuits you'd see the mutant fetuses and the babies in jars. Always present in modern horrors, films, literature, showing the time period of the freakshow. Where as an era it seemingly had an abundance of freaks on those circuits. What industrial age chemicals caused it? Yes thalidomide certainly causes the birth mutations. But later in history.
Were they mucking around with early genetics, in the time period? You start finding they were to primative extents and methods. But it tends to be a much darker fringe topic. Things like head binding at birth, isn't at embryo or pregnancy.
I hadnt thought about that, good point
I really dunno know about it, controversial subject. Dr macabre's House of Horrors. A lot gets scrubbed from history but there are breadcrumbs down that rabbit hole. Put it this way they were fucking with it. They fucked with it on the freak circuits. But giganticism probably had a few more factors. Freaks where products like thalidomide have had a hand creating direct deformation on the fetuses. But it came out later. There was others in the industrial age. There have been eugenicists for much longer.
Plenty of horrors have shown this, literature has stated it. Is it so far removed from the period. When that concept is there? I doubt it. Historically recorded in the Bible with the nephilm. Mythologically as well. They fucked with it.
That makes a scary amount of sense. God, ever since I saw that 1930s (?) freak show movie with the chant "One of us One of us!" I have been really 'freaked' out by it.