Inflammation is present in most, if not all diseases, in the acute if not the chronic. Inflammation of the mucous membrane causes catarrh of any canal, cavity or hollow organ which communicates externally by an aperture through the skin. Nerve contraction causes an undue amount of heat, gall stones, hardened ear wax and dropsy are because of inflammation. 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.