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What did Dorothea Dix believe should be done with the mentally ill?

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"Before she led the Union Army nursing corps during the Civil War, New England’s Dorothea Dix led the most ambitious reform efforts for the care of the mentally ill ever attempted in the U.S. Dix argued that a land grant system, similar to the one that created state universities, should be used to create mental hospitals across the country."

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