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
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
"Remember I rely upon you to look closely to these last 'Sir Bs.' and 'O'Dowds,' for I am as near softening of the brain as it is permitted to a consul to be."
From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Downey, Edmund
