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Dix  (dks), Dorothea Lynde 1802-1887.
American philanthropist, reformer, and educator who was a pioneer in the movement for specialized treatment of the mentally ill.
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Noun1.Dix - 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)
Dorothea Dix, Dorothea Lynde Dix


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I think I'll get Diana to go over with me next week, and we can spend the evening with Theodora Dix.
Anne of The Island by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
“I will give you, Mister Etel, for von pound, dix sous.
The Pioneers by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
Tulliver, not without a particular reason, had abstained from a seventh recital of the cool retort by which Riley had shown himself too many for Dix, and how Wakem had had his comb cut for once in his life, now the business of the dam had been settled by arbitration, and how there never would have been any dispute at all about the height of water if everybody was what they should be, and Old Harry hadn't made the lawyers.
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