Research question

OK, this might be slightly distasteful, but...
A character in my story, set in the late 18th century, has tuberculosis. A common treatment of the day was snails boiled in milk. This brought up a couple of questions which I would appreciate input on.
1. It sounds gross to us, but would it have sounded gross to the someone in the 18th century? (People do eat snails, after all.)
2. If you boiled snails in milk, do you think they would dissolve, so you'd get something like warm milk with an essence of snail in it? Or would it be more like a dish of soft, boiled snails in a kind of milk sauce?
3. What might it taste like?

There is only one way to do this kind of research. Buy some snails and some milk....

Based on my one eating of snails, I suspect it would be rather like clam chowder. They certainly aren't going to dissolve. They're rather rubbery when cooked (at least the ones I had were.)

1. Would depend on place and culinary habits I guess. Snails are still a delicacy in France and Morocco, that I know off.
2. No, they won't dissolve.
3. Yeah, clam probably wouldn't be too far from it. Snails on their own don't have a very strong taste and usually rely on the sauce/spices/whatever they're cooked with to highlight it

Thanks. My husband was of the same opinion about the snails not dissolving. He said he used to go to an all night French restaurant in NYC and they were pretty good served in butter.

Snails are excellent! Particularly with snail butter (butter, parsley, garlic) and a nice, crusty French bread with which to sop up the butter.