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
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
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 shut himself up in his room, all day long, day after day, devouring one book after another, until he became almost idiotic by the process, and he finally died of softening of the brain.
From In the School-Room Chapters in the Philosophy of Education by Hart, John S. (John Seely)
