softening of the brain
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The death rate is 89.4 per 100,000, substantially that of nephritis, 90.1, and cerebral hemorrhage and softening of the brain, 90.4; all diseases of middle and advanced age.
From Time Magazine Archive
He dutifully went under canvas with his pugnacious battalion, but he was pretty much of a failure, declined into rose pruning, and died after a sad "softening of the brain."
From Time Magazine Archive
All had softening of the brain, all were paralytic.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even as it is, if my wife's health admitted of moving I'd pitch it up to-morrow and run away—anywhere—ere softening of the brain came on as the sequela of hardening of the heart.
From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Downey, Edmund
Any one who had to learn a verse of poetry to remember the kings of England had softening of the brain in her eyes.
From Back at School with the Tucker Twins by Speed, Nell
