Dorothea Lynde Dix
- First Name
- Dorothea
- Additional Names
- Lynde
- Last Name
- Dix
- Born
- 4 April 1802
- Died
- 17 July 1887
- Profession
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Nurse (Superintendent of Army Nurses for the Union during the Civil War)
Reform of Treatment for the Mentally Ill - Note
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George Shepard Burleigh references her work in his poem "The Maniac"
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- Abolition
- Media
- Dorothea Dix Stamp
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