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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 383 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NEPENTHES (Gr. vrl7revOis, sc. Q,&puaeov, a
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drug that takes away grief, from vrl- privative, and 7rivOos, " grief ")  , an
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Egyptian
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drug spoken of by
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Homer in the Odyssey (iv . 221) . Generally in the
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form " nepenthe " the name is given to any drug having a like
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property, and also occasionally to the
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herb or plant from which such a drug is produced . It is also applied to a
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special genus of
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plants, chiefly
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East
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Indian, known as the "
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pitcher-plants," on
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account of the formation of the leaves .

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