VARIED MOLECULAR GROUPINGS. 



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The grouping of four molecules of carbon with 

 six of hydrogen and only one of oxygen is essential 

 to the development of the exciting powers of alco- 

 hol, which takes precedence of all other substances 

 for general use in stimulating the vital powers ; 

 even to the destruction of body and mind. By 

 increasing the carbon from four to ten, with 

 eight of hydrogen and one of nitrogen, another 

 stimulating vegetable substance nicotine is 

 produced. 



By combination in other various proportions of 

 the four kinds of molecules, carbon, hydrogen, 

 oxygen, and nitrogen, the peculiar powers of 

 numerous drugs and medicines are developed, as 

 shown comparatively in the following table : 



PROPERTIES OF DRUGS AND MEDICINES DEVELOPED BY 

 VARIED MOLECULAR GROUPINGS. 



This wonderful diversity of characteristic prop- 

 erties is brought about by varied .combinations of 

 only a few of the sixty-six different kinds of ele- 

 mentary molecules. All the various qualities of food 

 for exciting the vital powers, of deadly poisons 

 terminating them, of salutary drugs and healing 

 medicines, are developed through the instrumen- 



