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

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

Thirteen years ago Dr. Edward Adelbert Doisy of St. Louis obtained thousands of gallons of urine from pregnant women in lying-in hospitals.

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

For all practical purposes 60� to 63� F. is quite sufficient, and surgical and lying-in cases do well in lower temperatures.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various