softening of the brain

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All had softening of the brain, all were paralytic.

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

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

Chief among these known causes is a communicable germ disease called syphilis, to which is due the disease called paresis, or "softening of the brain."

From American Red Cross Text-Book on Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick by Cross, American Red

He had softening of the brain, brought on by grief.

From The Spectacle Man A Story of the Missing Bridge by Leonard, Mary Finley