On the morning of July 25, 1865, just after dawn, a loud scream rang out around the great physician's deathbed. Dr James Barry was dead. Sophia Bishop, the charwoman sent to prepare his corpse, had no intention of complying with his final wish, which was that on no account should he be changed out of the clothes in which he had died. While pulling of his top, she uncovered a secret the doctor had managed to hide for most of his life - he was a woman