softening of the brain
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All had softening of the brain, all were paralytic.
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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."
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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.
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That’s enough to give you softening of the brain.
From The Girls of Central High on the Stage The Play That Took The Prize by Morrison, Gertrude W.
"Well," said the other, "you needn't waste your time any longer; softening of the brain doesn't run in Robert's family."
From Men, Women, and Gods And Other Lectures by Gardener, Helen H. (Helen Hamilton)