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
"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
Hirohito was born in the lying-in chamber of Tokyo's Aoyama Palace on April 29, 1901.
From Time Magazine Archive
Aminah made the nurse acquainted with the marvellous events that had happened during her pregnancy and lying-in.
From The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah by Dinet, Etienne
