Dorothea Dix
Nurse, Author
1802 – 1887
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Who was Dorothea Dix?
Dorothea Lynde Dix was an American activist on behalf of the indigent insane who, through a vigorous program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, created the first generation of American mental asylums. During the Civil War, she served as Superintendent of Army Nurses.
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