softening of the brain

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All had softening of the brain, all were paralytic.

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

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

"Good gracious!" he sighed, "I must have a tendency to softening of the brain, and here it is so exceedingly hot that the blood is rushing to my head."

From Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)

She had a long illness, resulting from a shock of apoplexy which partially paralyzed her and ended in softening of the brain.

From The Story of the Toys by Dodge, Mary Harris Toy