softening of the brain
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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."
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.
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All had softening of the brain, all were paralytic.
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"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 Helen H. (Helen Hamilton) Gardener
Sir Walter Scott died at Abbotsford on September 21, 1832, and was buried four days later at Dryburgh, a post-mortem examination having disclosed considerable softening of the brain.
From Sir Walter Scott Famous Scots Series by George Saintsbury
