Craiglockhart Hydropathic
The Craiglockhart Hydropathic is a hospital complex in Craiglockhart near Edinburgh , Scotland . As part of Edinburgh Napier University , it is part of the Craiglockhart Campus.
history
Craiglockhart Hospital is on a hill in the suburbs of Edinburgh. The hospital consisted of different parts of the City Hospital (1896) and the Old Craig House since 1878 a psychiatric hospital, the City Poorhouse (1867), which served first as a poor house and later as a retirement home, and the Craiglockhart Hydropathic Institution a medical bathing facility. From 1916 to 1919 the Psychiatric Hospital and the Hydropathic Institution became a hospital where soldiers suffering from war neurosis were treated. The most famous patients of the hospital were Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen , who also wrote in the hospital's magazine with the ambiguous title The Hydra . From a medical point of view, the hospital was known through the doctor WHR Rivers , who also treated Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen here.
Coordinates: 55 ° 55 ′ 5 ″ N , 3 ° 14 ′ 24 ″ W.