Dorothea Lynde Dix

Finding large numbers of mentally ill persons in jails, almshouses, and wandering about the community in Massachusetts in 1842 and 1843, Dorothea Lynde Dix launched her career by convincing the legislature to expand the Worcester Hospital.

The Mad Among Us Gerald N. Grob 1994

Finding large numbers of mentally ill persons in jails, almshouses, and wandering about the community in Massachusetts in 1842 and 1843, Dorothea Lynde Dix launched her career by convincing the legislature to expand the Worcester Hospital.

The Mad Among Us Gerald N. Grob 1994

It was from Dr. Channing that Dorothea Lynde Dix drank in this theory with passionate faith, and proceeded at once to convert it into action.

American Men of Mind Burton Egbert Stevenson 1917

Dorothea Lynde Dix -- born February 11, 1802 -- was the daughter of Joseph

Daughters of the Puritans A Group of Brief Biographies Seth Curtis Beach 1884

A caller's request for the complete transcript of a speech made by Dorothea Lynde Dix to the Oregon Legislative Assembly "sometime in the mid-1800s" has had us on a hunt this morning, and has led us to a short paper written by Robert J. Gould in 1941 for the Medical History Club of the University of Oregon Medical School.

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A caller's request for the complete transcript of a speech made by Dorothea Lynde Dix to the Oregon Legislative Assembly "sometime in the mid-1800s" has had us on a hunt this morning, and has led us to a short paper written by Robert J. Gould in 1941 for the Medical History Club of the University of Oregon Medical School.

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A caller's request for the complete transcript of a speech made by Dorothea Lynde Dix to the Oregon Legislative Assembly "sometime in the mid-1800s" has had us on a hunt this morning, and has led us to a short paper written by Robert J. Gould in 1941 for the Medical History Club of the University of Oregon Medical School.

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A caller's request for the complete transcript of a speech made by Dorothea Lynde Dix to the Oregon Legislative Assembly "sometime in the mid-1800s" has had us on a hunt this morning, and has led us to a short paper written by Robert J. Gould in 1941 for the Medical History Club of the University of Oregon Medical School.

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The social reformer Dorothea Lynde Dix had been appointed the Union’s superintendent of female nurses during the Civil War.

Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010

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Memorial Soliciting a State Hospital for the Protection and Cure of the Insane, Submitted to the General Assembly of North Carolina. November, 1848. [House of Commons Document, No. 2.] 1848