Hell's Cauldron is an expose of Army and VA psychiatrist—sadistic men of warped minds—who search for symptoms to justify the confinement of sane men, while "dispensing confinement as a cure-all". It is the layman's textbook of psychiatry; giving an interesting and understandable explanation of mental illness, and the little that is known of its cause and treatment.
Captain Thomas G. E. Wilkes, an Atlanta engineer, give a vivid account of his confinement in the Army hospital at Bastrop and Tem...