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Head of the Union Army Nurse Corps during the Civil War, she was an activist for indigent (poor) people that were mentally ill, and helped create the first of the mental asylums in the US.

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Dorothea Dix was named Dragon Dix because of the rules she made for the woman about becoming a nurse.


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