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DIX, Dorothea Lynde (1802 – 1887)

DIX, Dorothea Lynde (1802 – 1887)

1802 – 1887

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1843 CE

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Memorial. To the Legislature of Massachusetts.

DIX, Dorothea Lynde (1802 – 1887)
DIX, Dorothea Lynde (1802 – 1887)

Dorothea Dix played an instrumental role in the founding or expansion of more than 30 hospitals for the treatment of the mentally ill in various U.S. states. This was probably the first of her many publications advoca…