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Figure 1 A clinique of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, c.1895. A ‘clinique’, or ‘firm’ as it was known in England, was made up of the students working with the staff of a particular hospital ward. Photographs like this appeared at the end of the century and are a visual representation of the new allegiances of medical students to their classmates, the schools and hospitals where they trained and their teachers. Such pictures were often taken by commercial photographers and sold to students as a memento of their studies.