The Auto­bi­og­ra­phy of a Quack and The Case of George Ded­low by S. Weir Mitchell com­bines satir­i­cal com­men­tary on fraud­u­lent med­ical prac­tices with a poignant explo­ration of a soldier’s psy­cho­log­i­cal and phys­i­cal strug­gles dur­ing the Civ­il War.