School: Dubhais (roll number 16323)
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- (continued from previous page)out the prayer. At the end of each 'passing' the donkey is given a piece of "hard bread" (oatcake) to eat and any crumbs which the donkey lets fall must be given to the patient to eat.
- The roots of the orange lily used to be sometimes used as a poultice for a stonebruise or other similar septic sore - for bringing the thing "to a head", that is drawing the poison to the surface. Then for drawing out and draining off the pus a common practise was to apply a poultice of black snails sliced.
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