Dorothea Dix

Dorothea Dix
    n 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) [syn: {Dix}, {Dorothea Dix}, {Dorothea
         Lynde Dix}]