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
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
For he is called to Chicago on the day he is to marry a home-town girl, to do his duty by Teresa Wright in a lying-in hospital.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hirohito was born in the lying-in chamber of Tokyo's Aoyama Palace on April 29, 1901.
From Time Magazine Archive
They have erected hospitals at an immense expence for the reception and cure of the sick, the lame, the wounded, and the insane poor, for lying-in women, and deserted children.
From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Jorgenson, Chester E.
