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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."

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

From Oscar Wilde by Leonard Cresswell Ingleby

He was presently transferred to the castle of Lourdes, where he developed softening of the brain and died in 1715.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various


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