A little of everything enters into this antique pharmacy: the longest tooth of a black dog; the nose of a mouse wrapped in a pink cloth; the right eye of a green lizard torn from the living animal and placed in a bag of kid-skin; the heart of a serpent, cut out with the left hand; the four articulations of the tail of a scorpion, including the dart, wrapped tightly in a black cloth, so that for three days the sick man can see neither the remedy nor him that applies it; and a number of other extravagances.

We may well close the book, alarmed at the slough of the imbecility whence the art of healing has come down to us.
In the midst of these imbecilities, the preludes of medicine, we find a mention of the "fuller." _Tertium qui vocatur fullo, albis guttis, dissectum utrique lacerto adalligant_, says the text.

To treat fevers divide the fuller beetle in two parts and apply half under the right arm and half under the left.
[Illustration: THE PINE-CHAFER.
(_Melolontha fullo._)] Now what did the ancient naturalist mean by the term "fuller beetle"?
We do not precisely know.

The qualification _albis guttis_, white spots, would fit the Pine-chafer well enough, but it is not sufficient to make us certain.

Pliny himself does not seem to have been very certain of the identity of the remedy.