The text includes invocations of biblical and magical formulas as protection against fever:
Iao, Sabaoth, Adonai! I beseech Anatiel, Raphael, Gabriel, Suriel, Azariel, Uriel, . . . aubrael, Ablanathanalba, Sesengembarpharanges. These are the Potentates of God and the Powers of the cure. Cure Sarapion, whom Allous bore, from every three-day fever-chill, every-other-day fever-chill, quotidian fever-chill, and from every sickness every day.