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
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
General paresis or softening of the brain is probably invariably preceded by syphilis.
From Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics by Guyer, Michael F.
Some of the Effects.—It is now known that paresis, also termed general paralysis or softening of the brain, is probably invariably due to syphilis.
From Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics by Guyer, Michael F.
