ISABEL'S TREATMENT TO MALE AND FEMALE PATIENTS.
Isabel, the magdalen woman, could not only bind old men and women, but the young and strong.
I saw her walk up to a young man by the name of Patrick Donahue; put on to him the asylum harness. Isabel might have been the devil, for aught I know, that Donahue was trying to get away from her when he leaped from the window of the third story; as he said when asked why he did so, "I was trying to get away from the devil."
Again I saw this wonderful female come to the men's hall with a skirt in her hand; laid hold of Patrick Fitzgerald, a young man; stripped off his clothes to his shirt, and put on him a skirt. There was no shame in her; there was no part of a lady in her.