Past Research - Centaur - Yellow Wild Apple and Orange Raspberry

Again, one of my oldest experiences.
At the time, a doctor and eminent scientist wanted to move from city to city more efficiently. Rather humble, he could not afford to take a mount to move quickly. So he came to me so we could find a solution. I was able to give him one using two relatively harmless alchemical elements. Saddly, I didn't have the knowledge at the time to make this change painless. Something that no longer applies today, pain or pleasure are even parameters that I take rigorously into account for my experiments. Not to say that those causing pleasure create more obedient subjects afterwards. But this subject is for another day.
The yellow wild apple differs from other species of apple by its very small size, approximately 5 cm in diameter, and its perfect Naples yellow color. No stains, no scratches, no traces of red or green. We could almost call it gold even if it doesn't shimmer. Consumption causes the individual to gain equine characteristics. The juice creates an anthropomorphic version (if the base is humanoid of course) and the raw flesh an animal version.
The orange raspberry is a simple effect but which adapts according to the consumer. It creates an elongation of the lower part of the body, what some would commonly call “taurification”.
As said, this change is based on the predominant race of the individual. For the subject shown on this page, ingesting this element only would have created a human with two pairs of legs, connected by a new torso. Or a new complete body whose "head" will be its previous upper half.
The mixture of these two alchemical elements was a much appreciated discovery which had a certain success with the people of the region. But if this scholar had good intentions, those of the following were more lewd and unfortunately tarnished the devotion of this dear doctor.
At the time, to thank me, he gave me a magnificent vase from the city of Lerna, a souvenir that he had painted in honor of one of his disciples. A tragic irony when we know the end of this dear friend that was Chiron.