Kobaltum. (Cobaltum Metallicum.)

Cobalt. Co.

A mental known to Hohenheim in the fourteenth century. Derives its name from the German word Kobold, signifying mischievous spirit, so named by the miners who considered it a profitless ore. It is found in conjunction with nickel from which it has to be separated, a process first taught in 1807 by a chemist named Lougier, improved by Liebig in 1848, and perfected by Genth, a Philadelphia chemist, who produced absolutely pure Kobalt in 1850.

From this chemically pure Kobalt Hering made his proving in July, 1850.

Further provings were made by Koller, Lippe, Jones and Sparhawk. See Allen's Encyclopaedia, vol. 5, p. 361.

- Hering, Lippe, Pehrson, MSS.

Great exhilaration of spirits, vivacity and rapid flow of thoughts.
Desire for study.
Indisposed to mental and physical labor; low spirited; thinks too little of himself.
All mental excitement increases sufferings.

Dizziness; dullness; feeling as if head grew large (during stool).

Pain in forehead, with uneasiness in stomach.
Frontal or occipital pain, agg. from stooping.
Dull, pressive pain in temples.
At every jar, feels as if top of head would come off.
Frontal headache, with pain back of eyes.
Headache in morning, with beating and sore aching.
Headache when getting up from sitting.

Great itching on hairy scalp, in beard and under chin, burning when scratching.
Sore pimples along edge of hair back of head.

Dim vision; darting pains in eyes when writing, feeling when opening lids, as if little strings were holding them together and snapping.
Flickering before eyes when reading; letters look blurred.
Darting, shooting pains in eyes, from bright light.
Lachrymation and pain from cold air; sensation as of sand under lids.
Smarting in lids when using eyes.

Aching, humming in left ear.
Stinging through left ear from roof of mouth.

Putrid, sickish smell before nose.
Watery discharge, with sneezing.
Nose feels obstructed.
Left nostril feels dry; filled with scales; itching.

Red hard lumps on right cheek.

Peeling of lips, with soreness and bleeding.
Disposition to keep jaws tightly closed.
Large boils, very painful, on chin and left lower jaw.
A large furuncle in region of left lower jaw.

Pain in hollow teeth, they feel too long; gums swollen, tender, as if ulcerated; agg. from cold air.

Flat taste; bad taste, with belching in morning.
Tongue coated white; cracks across middle.

Pricking, stinging in roof of mouth, extending to left ear.
Constant watery secretion, with frequent swallowing.

Soreness, with rawness when hawking.
Dryness and soreness, mornings.
Hawking up thick, white mucus, which fills throat, in morning.
Feeling of fullness, from stomach to throat.

Diminished appetite, especially for upper.

Hiccough after eating, with soreness in pit of stomach.
Belching of wind, mornings and after stool.
Rising of sour or bitter water, with pain in stomach; afterward, dryness in throat.
Qualmishness, with fullness of stomach.
Nausea, with pain in forehead.

Pain in stomach and abdomen after eating, uneasiness; must move about.
Stomach feels as if it contained undigested food.
Fullness in stomach, extending to throat; qualmishness.
Soreness when inspiring deeply, or from hiccough.

Shooting, stitching from region of liver down into thigh.
Shooting pains in hepatic region and sharp pain in region of spleen, agg. on taking a deep inspiration; fullness in abdomen after a slight meal; constant dropping of blood with stool. ~ Hepatic derangement.
Sharp pain in splenic region, agg. when inspiring deeply.

Abdomen feels empty about umbilicus.
Cutting before stool.
Rumbling in abdomen.
Fullness in abdomen after a light meal.
Colic at 5. A. M., followed by large stool and tenesmus.

Urgent desire for stool while walking, agg. when standing; stool profuse, watery, spouting.
Stool large, soft, with tenesmus and aching in sphincter ani; severe colicky pain in lower part of abdomen; tenesmus after stool; during stool, dizziness.
Costiveness alternating with diarrhea.
Feces like hazelnuts, with dullness in head.
Pressure in rectum.
Constant dropping of blood from anus (stools not bloody).

Scanty urine.
Albuminuria.
Frequent discharge of small quantities of urine.
Increased secretion of pale urine, frequent urination in morning, after drinking coffee.
Scanty urine, with greasy pellicle; yellow flocculent, or red sediment, and strong, pungent smell.
Smarting in end of urethra during micturition.
Burning in urethra.

Frequent nocturnal emissions, with lewd dreams; only partial or no erections; impotence.
Seminal emissions at night, with headache and backache.
Impotence and emissions without erections.
Severe pain in right testicle, amel. after urinating.
Secondary gonorrhea, with a greenish discharge.
Yellow brown spots on genitals (and abdomen).

Stitches in anterior part of larynx.

Frequent sighing.
On taking a deep inspiration, stitches in chest, soreness in stomach and pain in spleen.

Cough, with soreness in throat and rawness when hawking.
Short, hacking cough, with expectoration of bright red blood, which seemingly comes from larynx.
Expectoration of thick, tough mucus, mixed with blood, with fullness and pressive pain in larynx; scratching, rawness and burning in throat, and a disposition to keep jaws tightly closed; agg. from pressure, empty deglutition and cold water.
Copious expectoration of sweetish, frothy, white mucus, with lumps in it.

Deep stitches in lower part of chest, mostly left side, from deep inspiration.
Through chest fullness of stomach to throat.

Pain, between shoulders, in lumbar region and small of back.
Aching pain in small of back, or spine; agg. sitting, amel. rising, walking or lying down.
Backache, with seminal emissions.
(In sick:) Pain along spine, and from sacrum down through legs into feet, agg. while sitting.

Aching in wrist joints, with occasional stitches.

(In sick:) Pain in upper part of right hip bone, agg. sitting.
Shooting into thigh from liver.
Excessive weakness of knees.
Foot sweat between toes, smelling sour or like sole-leather.
Flushes of heat along legs.
Stitches in legs.
Jerks in limbs when falling asleep.
Trembling of limbs, especially legs, aching when sitting.
Pricking, as of needles, in feet.

Bruised pain in all limbs.
Stitches in arms and legs.

Lying down: backache amel.
Sitting: aching in back agg.; pain along spine; pain in hip bone agg.
Standing: desire for stool agg.
Rising from sitting: headache, backache amel.
Stooping: frontal and occipital pain agg.
Walking: urgent desire for stool; backache amel.
Must move about: pain in stomach with uneasiness.

Distressing drowsiness, in evening, sleeps ten to eleven hours and still hardly able to get up in morning.
Disturbed, unrefreshing sleep.
Wakeful; can do with less sleep.
On rising, pain in head and small of back.
Lewd dreams, emissions; only partial or no erections.

Morning: headache with beating and sore aching; belching and bad taste; dryness and soreness of throat; hawking up thick white mucus; frequent urinating.
At 5 A. M.: colic.
Evening: distressing drowsiness.
Night: eyes ache; seminal emissions.

Getting warm in bed: itching all over.
Cold air: lachrymation and pain in eyes; pain in teeth agg.

Chilly from 11 to 12 A. M.; headache, with nausea and languor from noon to 2 P. M., then fever and sweat.
Chilliness, with yawning, from 4 to 5 P. M.; feels dull and weak, with aversion to mental exertion.
Flushes of heat: with sweat; along legs.

From 11 to 12 A. M.: chilly.
From noon to 2 P. M.: nausea and languor.
From 4 to 5 P. M.: chilliness with yawning.

Right: red, hard lumps on cheek; severe pain in testicle; pain in upper part of hip bone.
Left: aching, humming in ear; stinging through ear to roof of mouth; larger boils on lower jaw; large furuncle in region of lower jaw; stitches in side of chest.

As if head grew large; as if top of head would come off; as if little strings were holding eyelids together; as of sand under lids; teeth feel too long; gums as if ulcerated; stomach as if it contained undigested food: pricking as of needles in feet.
Pain: in forehead; in head; in occiput; back of eyes; in stomach; in forehead; in abdomen; in back; in spleen; between shoulders; in lumbar region; in small of back; along spine; from sacrum down through legs into feet; in upper part of right hip bone.
Severe pain: in right testicle.
Sharp pain: in region of spleen.
Shooting: in eyes; from region of liver down into thigh; in hepatic region; into thigh from liver.
Cutting: in abdomen.
Darting: in eyes.
Severe colicky pain: in lower part of abdomen.
Stitches: in anterior part of larynx; in chest; in wrist joints; in legs; in arms.
Stitching: from region of liver down into thigh.
Stinging: through left ear from roof of mouth.
Burning: on hairy parts of head when scratched; in urethra; in throat.
Sore aching: in head.
Soreness: of lips; of throat; in pit of stomach; in stomach.
Smarting: in lids; in end of urethra.
Pressive pain: in larynx.
Bruised pain: in all limbs.
Aching: in eyes at night; in left ear; in small of back; in wrist joints; in legs; in sphincter ani.
Beating: in head.
Pricking: in roof of mouth.
Dryness: of throat.
Pressure: in rectum.
Dull, pressive pain: in temples.
Fullness: from stomach to throat; in abdomen; in larynx.
Itching: on hairy scalp; in beard and under chin; in left nostril; all over.

Pressure: disposition to keep jaws tightly closed agg.
At every jar: feels as if top of head would come off.

Much itching all over, when getting warm in bed.
Pimples on shoulders, pit of stomach and buttocks; bleed easily when scratched.

Compare Agnus cast., impotency; Zincum, pain in back agg. while sitting.