lying-in
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
"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
In private practice it is likewise important that the lying-in room should be provided with plenty of light and air.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
