Laveau would in turn counsel her practitioners by supplying them with advice or with protective spiritual objects such as candles, powder, and an assortment of other items mixed together to create a gris-gris.
However, it is equally clear that from the fourteenth century at the latest, medical practitioners were supplying rituals for conception as well as childbirth to their patients, presumably in person.
Indeed, as we found, the very process of cutting and polishing new facets and trialling these on experienced and knowledgeable practitioners itself supplied and provoked new ideas.
In regions where it was difficult to identify epidemiological reports, authors also consulted other researchers and practitioners who supplied references or information.
The general practitioners subsequently supplied, at six monthly intervals, information about any hormonal preparations prescribed, any pregnancies and their outcome, all new episodes of illness, any surgery, and any deaths occurring in women still under their observation.
This registry of information on contacts with general practitioners (GPs) supplied data on preventive consultations, social-medicine-related consultations, conversational therapy at the GP within 1 year preceding pneumonia admission, influenza vaccination and application for reimbursement due to chronic or terminal illness.
The association of general practitioner supply with health measures might be explained by confounding in several ways.
The independent associations of the standardised mortality ratio for all-cause mortality at ages 15 to 64 years with deprivation and general practitioner supply are shown in Table 1, using the Townsend score as the primary measure of deprivation.
In correspondence with hospital practitioners eager to supply him with cases of blast, moreover, Zuckerman was often less than fulsome in his thanks, disputing their diagnoses which for him did not achieve the precision required for proper scientific knowledge.
Maintaining or enlarging areas of forest reserves could from this point of view lead to increasing import of energy wood, which might cause trade-offs with biodiversity in supplying countries (Germany: practitioner group).
