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Dix, Dorothea
- Nineteenth-century reformer who protested the practice of confining the mentally ill in prisons and whose labors led to the expansion and improvement of mental hospitals.
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The work of Dorothea Dix, government superintendent of women nurses, with its onerous and important duties, needs no eulogy.
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Dorothea Dix revolutionized the care of the insane in the United States.
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Up to the time of Dorothea Dix's interest, no one had seemed to bother his head about prisoners and insane people.
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But it mattered very much to Dorothea Dix that human beings were being ill-treated, and she meant to start a reform.
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Any one else would have given up, but Dorothea Dix always carried her point.
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