softening of the brain
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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
He died not long afterward of softening of the brain.
From The Cottage of Delight A Novel by Harben, Will N. (William Nathaniel)
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
