lying-in-hospital

Updated: May 31, 2025

The consequence is, that upon breaking into the hold, and unloading one of these whale cemeteries, in the Greenland dock, a savor is given forth somewhat similar to that arising from excavating an old city grave-yard, for the foundations of a Lying-in-Hospital.

Herman Melville - Moby Dick, or, the whale

"A case, in the General Lying-in-Hospital, Lambeth, of small-pox occurred in a woman a few days after her admission, and the birth of her child. Her own child was vaccinated when only four days old, and all the other infants in the house varying from one day to a fortnight and more. Do you consider that taking of matter from a child's arm weakens the effect of vaccination on the system?

Pye Henry Chavasse - Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children