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

He emphasises far too much the neuropathic element, and revels in the repulsive symptoms of incipient softening of the brain.

From Oscar Wilde by Ingleby, Leonard Cresswell

Another of the dangers is gradual occlusion of the arteries bringing about necrosis with softening of the brain substance.

From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Warfield, Louis Marshall