Inflammation is a condition wherein the function of heat is performed in too great a degree, the result of morbid nerve tissue. Inflammation is recognized by redness, swelling, heat, pain, impaired functions, over renitent tissue and a change in catabolism. Inflammation may be seated in any organ or tissue of the body wherein there are nerves. The hair, nails and cartilage are void of blood vessels and nerves, therefore are not subject to inflammation, neuritis or arteritis. The part inflamed has a temperature much higher than the rest of the body.
Blood has the same temperature throughout the vasacular system.
Inflammation modifies physiological processes. I am often told that anatomy cannot be otherwise than correct. I do not object to the slight difference in the number, form and structure of normal tissue found in different subjects, reversed organs, but I do disapprove of the physiological and pathological deductions. Fever is diffused inflammation. There can be no fever without a local inflammation.