loss of mind

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It is not only physical decrepitude that he conveys but also the humiliated fury of a proud, spirited and ruthless man cowed by the gradual loss of mind and authority.

From Time Magazine Archive

He must have left his money box here one day, closed the place up and then came his unfortunate loss of mind, after he was hurt.

From The Moving Picture Girls at Oak Farm or, Queer Happenings While Taking Rural Plays by Hope, Laura Lee

Again, Dr. Seguin of New York relates, in his work on Idiocy, a number of cases of loss of mind produced by the altered state of the mother's milk.

From The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother by Napheys, George H. (George Henry)

It was no silly vaunt of optimism for him to tell Lockyer that only loss of life or loss of mind could dislodge him.

From The Grain of Dust by Phillips, David Graham