Absence of life is coexistent with the separation of intelligence and material, spirit and matter, followed by dissolution, disintegration, separation into its component parts of the material body. The intellectual portion known as spirit is eternal, always existed and always will. Material always was, its form has been subject to change, as much can be said of spirit. Exactly how these various substances act in the incitement of fever is unknown, explain that the nervous system may play an important role in these disturbances is indicated by the fact that more or less persistent elevations of temperature may follow puncture or hemorrhage in the corpus striatum or lesions of the bulb or certain other affections of the nervous system. Hemorrahge is caused by necrosis, softening of the vessel walls, the result of two much tension of the nervi vasorum.
All vital action depends upon the condition of the nervous system for expression.
This includes mental, motor and sensory. Pain is sensation of nerves because of over tension, the swelling is really an enlargement diametrically of the nervous tissue, counterbalanced by contraction. There are two intelligences in man, Innate and Educated, spirit and mind, the creator and the created. The voluntary nervous system includes the twelve pairs of cranial and the thirty-one pairs of spinal nerves, which Educated learns to control during life. The sympathetic gangliated chains have three pairs of cervical ganglia, ten to twelve pairs of thoracic, four lumbar and four or five sacral, all told 21 to 24 distributing centers.