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."
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All had softening of the brain, all were paralytic.
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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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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 Saintsbury, George
Ingersoll wittily says, of the combined influence of softening of the brain and ossification of the heart.
From Men, Women, and Gods And Other Lectures by Gardener, Helen H. (Helen Hamilton)