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Noun: Dorothea Lynde Dix
  1. United States social reformer who pioneered in the reform of prisons and in the treatment of the mentally ill; superintended women army nurses during the American Civil War (1802-1887)
    - Dix, Dorothea Dix

Type of: crusader, meliorist, reformer, reformist, social reformer

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