Crieff, Perth & Kinross - Crieff Hydropathic - Valentines postcard, c.1930s

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• Picture / Image:  Crieff Hydropathic, Crieff, Perth & Kinross
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Crieff Hydro is a hotel in Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland. The purpose-built hotel opened in 1868 as the Crieff Hydropathic Establishment, and is locally known as the Hydro. It was founded in 1868 by Dr Thomas Henry Meikle,^[1] who had received treatment at a centre in Gräfenberg, Austria (now known as Lázne Jeseník, Czech Republic), where Vincenz Priessnitz had built such an establishment. Preissnitz based his pharmacopeia on water, plenty of exercise, fresh mountain air, water treatments in the cool sparkling brooks and simple wholesome country food.

In 1857, Dr Meikle, a recent medical graduate from Edinburgh University, observed Priessnitz's work and whilst being personally disparaging of him for his non-medical background, took back some of his principles for his new hydropathic establishment in Aberdeen,^[3] Scotland. When Priessnitz came to Britain on a visit promoted by the publications of Captain R. T. Claridge, a prominent booster of his methods,^[4] The Lancet was particularly scathing about his work, describing him as a charlatan and a fraud.^[5] However, Dr James Manby Gully,^[6] also an Edinburgh medical graduate, picked up on the ""water cure"", his most famous patient being Charles Darwin, who attended Gully's establishment in Malvern, Worcestershire.

Built in the second wave of such establishments in the UK in the latter part of the nineteenth century, Crieff Hydro utilised the Caledonian Railway to bring a prosperous, sober clientele from the lowlands of Scotland to take the cure in upmarket conditions. The architect of the original Scots-Jacobean style building, built at a cost of £30,000, was Robert Ewan, but the original building was extended in the later heyday of hydropathic spas in 1893–94.^[7]

It was successful from the start and, from a stable of 20 such establishments across Scotland at the peak, is one of only two left, the other being Peebles Hydro in Peebles enjoying similar upland surroundings. Priessnitz considered mountain scenery an essential background to his Nature Cure^{[disambiguation needed]}. By 1874, as medical superintendent, Dr Meikle was drawing a salary of £500 per annum, receiving dividends on his investment at the maximum of 7% and getting an extraordinary £279 as an ex gratia payment.^[8]

During World War II, the government took over the Hydro, and Free Polish forces were billeted there, to the chagrin of some of the residents of the town, who felt scarce food supplies were being diverted to the Poles' exclusive use.^{[citation needed]}

It has been a Category B listed building since 1971.^[1]

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

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county/ country=perthshire

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period=inter-war (1918 - 1939)

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