THE SELECTED LETTERS OF CHARLES LAMB (291 pp.)—Editedby T.S Matthews—Farrar, Straus & Cudahy ($4). One day in 1796, London’s Morning Chronicle reported a terrible tale. Naming no names, the paper ...
A parulis resulting from blunt trauma to the jaw. A parulis, commonly called a "gum boil," is an area of inflammatory tissue arising in the mouth on the gums. The word derives, as do many of our ...