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
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
His mother, during her lying-in period in the year 1812, was reading a popular novel, The Three Spaniards, that had as its hero a derring-do lad named Fernando.
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 Walsh, James J.
