First, in its general form, the analysis of fever corresponds exactly with the mechanism of local inflammations; in each case there is a fixation of blood, a contraction causing a more or less extended stasis, followed by an effort of the system to re establish the circulation, and as a result a violent movement of the blood; it will be seen that 'red globules begin to pass into the lymphatic arteries', which causes, in a local form, the injection of the conjunctive, for example, or, in a general form, heat and movement through out the whole organism; if the movement increases,' the most tenuous parts of the blood separate from the heavier, which remain in the capillaries, where the lymph will be converted into a sort of jelly': hence the suppurations that occur in the respiratory or intestinal system in cases of generalized inflammation, or abscesses in cases of local fever.'