lying-in
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Columbia Women’s opened for business inside a former mansion as a “hospital and dispensary for the treatment of diseases peculiar to women, and a lying-in asylum,” according to its congressional charter.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 17, 2019
"As a result, it occasionally occurred that an otherwise healthy young woman dropped dead of a pulmonary embolism as she was getting into a taxi with her baby to leave the lying-in hospital."
From Time Magazine Archive
Students at the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine are forcing a reorganization of the lying-in clinic system at the university's Billings Hospital.
From Time Magazine Archive
From the Norths' lying-in, the two-part film shifts somberly to a different sort of hospital: one for advanced-cancer patients.
From Time Magazine Archive
At one time in the nineteenth century, it was much more dangerous for a woman to have a child in a lying-in hospital in Europe than to go through an attack of typhoid fever.
From The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time by James J. Walsh
The daily business of this good lady was to scold the maids, collect eggs, feed the turkeys and assist at all lyings-in that happened within the parish.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 by Various
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