The healing of wounds and fractures require a rise in temperature in order to furnish a larger per cent than usual of the red corpuscles. The degree of general temperature determines the per cent of red and white corpuscles. Local temperature determines the per cent of red or white and the amount of leakage deposited. Inflammation is characterized by excessive emigration of leukocytes from the blood vessels, which soon disappear by colliquative necrosis. Arteritis is an inflammation of an artery, the nervi vasorum is irritated, inflamed.
Blood vessels rupture because of being softened.
Softening and hardening are known as malacia and sclerosis. Many persons suffer in an amputated limb, because the pressure, the cause of pain and other diseased conditions, has not been removed. Blood poisoning, septicemia, pyemia, toxemia, are medical terms used to account for any ailment which is presumed to arise from introduction of decomposed organic matter into the blood, excrementitious toxins of the intestinal canal not properly eliminated, putrefactive micro-organic germs which grow and multiply in the blood. In the above pathological conditions, please remember, morbid tissue and abnormal functionating always accompany each other. It is impossible for either to exist without the other.