Kobaltum
By Adolph von Lippe — Text Book of Materia Medica
Mind and Disposition
Great exhilaration of spirits.
Great vivacity and rapid flow of thoughts (evening).
More disposed to study.
Feeling of great uneasiness, had to move about and could not keep still (with pain in the stomach and abdomen).
Head
Dizziness during stool.
Dulness in the head, with hard stools.
Fulness in the head; feels too large, worse from stooping and bending forward.
Pain in the forehead soon after rising.
Bruised pain in the head.
Headache as if it would burst, had to lie down, with sour stomach after supper.
As if the top of the head would come off.
When stepping, sensation as if the brain went up and down.
Headache worse in the room, going off in the open air.
Headache, with severe pain in the small of the back.
Great itching in the hairy scalp, in the beard and under the chin.
Eyes
Loss of vision on writing, dimness of sight; while reading the letters look blurred.
The eyes smart in the light.
On writing, dartings in the eye.
Pain in the back part of the eyes, with headache.
Darting pains in the eyes on coming to the bright sunshine.
The eyes ache at night.
Profuse lachrymation in the open air with water from the nose, with pain in the eyes in the cold air.
Sensation as if something (sand) were under the upper lid, obliging him to rub it.
Ears
Stinging through the left ear from the roof of the mouth.
Nose
Putrid, sickish smell before the nose.
Thin discharge from the nose, water from the nose.
The nose feels obstructed.
Face
A large, very painful boil on the right side of the chin.
Feeling of the lips with soreness, they bleed easily.
Disposition to keep the jaws tightly closed.
Mouth and Throat
Flat mucous taste in the mouth.
Tongue coated white with cracks across the middle (morning).
Stinging pain in the roof of the mouth.
Constant secretion of water in the mouth with swallowing.
Throat feels dry and raw.
The throat is filled with white mucus.
Soreness of the throat when hawking.
Sensation of fulness in the throat from the stomach.
Stomach and Abdomen
Hiccough, after eating, with soreness in the pit of the stomach.
Belching of wind (in the morning), (during stool).
Rising of bitter water, with pain in the stomach, afterwards dryness in the throat.
Feeling in the stomach as if it contained undigested food.
Fulness of the stomach as if it were filled with air.
Soreness in the pit of the stomach caused by hiccough.
Shooting pain in the region of the liver.
Sharp pain in the region of the spleen, worse on taking a deep inspiration.
Feeling of emptiness in the abdomen and umbilicus.
Colic (5 A.M.) followed by watery stool and tenesmus.
Rumbling in the bowels; (before stool).
Fulness in the abdomen after a slight meal.
Stool and Anus
Constant desire for stool while walking, worse when standing still, followed by diarrhœa.
Soft, thin stool with severe colic in the lower bowels, followed by tenesmus, pain in the sphincter ani and headache.
Small, hard, dry stool.
Feces like hazel-nuts, with dulness in the head.
Pressure in the rectum.
Constant dropping of blood from the anus (no blood with the stool).
Urinary Organs
Increased secretion of pale urine, frequent micturition, after drinking coffee early in the morning.
Frequent discharge of small quantities of urine.
Scanty urine with a greasy pellicle and yellow, flocculent sediment and strong pungent smell.
Smarting in the end of the urethra during micturition.
Burning in the urethra. (Secondary) gonorrhœa, with a greenish discharge.
Sexual Organs
Men. Frequent nocturnal seminal emissions with lewd dreams, waking him up from sleep; with headache.
Impotence and nocturnal emission without erections.
Severe pain in the right testicle; better after passing urine.
Yellow brown spots on the genitals (and abdomen).
Respiratory Organs
Frequent sighing.
On taking a deep inspiration, stitches in the chest, soreness in the stomach and pain in the spleen.
Cough with soreness in the throat and rawness when hawking.
Stitches in the anterior part of the larynx.
Short backing cough, with frequent eructation of a quantity of bright red blood, it feels; as if it came from the larynx.
Raising of much thick, tough mucus mixed with a considerable quantity of bright red blood; with the sensation of fulness and pressive pain in the larynx, accompanied by a sensation of scratching and rawness, with occasional burning pains, and a disposition to keep the jaws closed tightly: these sensations are increased by pressure, empty deglutition and cold water.
Copious expectoration of frothy white mucus.
Back
Pain between the shoulders, in the lumbar region and small of the back.
Aching pain in the small of the back, worse when sitting, going off when rising, walking or lying down.
Pain in the back (spine), increasing while sitting, better on walking or lying down.
Backache with seminal emissions.
Extremities
Upper. Stitches; in the arms (wrist joints).
Aching pain in the wrist joints.
Lower. Shooting in the thighs from the liver.
Excessive weakness of the knees.
Foot-sweat, mostly between the toes, smelling sour or like sole-leather.
Flushes of heat along the legs.
Stitches in the legs.
Bruised pain in all the limbs.
Jerks in the limbs when failing asleep.
Trembling of the limbs, especially the legs, aching when sitting.
Sleep
Difficulty of falling asleep.
When falling asleep jerks in the limbs.
Wakens from lewd dreams and pollutions.
Can do with less sleep than usual, wakefulness.
Unrefreshing sleep.
Fever
Chilly from 11 to 12 A.M.; headache with nausea and languor from noon to 2 P.M.; followed by fever and perspiration.
Chilliness with yawning from 4 to 5 P.M.; weak with aversion to mental exertion.
Flushes of heat with perspiration.
Flushes of heat along the legs.
Skin
Itching all over when getting warm in bed.
Itching of the shoulders; outside of the knee.
Conditions
Bending forward increases the headache.
Sitting increases and causes pain in the spine.
Cold water increases the pain in the larynx.