Periodic Health Examination – A brief history and critical assessment
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The start D’Souza,1 stated that the origins of the Periodic Health Examination (PHE) or screening occurred in a brothel in the papal state of Avignon in 1347, “when an abbess and a local surgeon, every Saturday, singly examined women ‘in the home’ and if any of them had contracted any illness by their whoring, they were separated from the rest and not allowed to prostitute themselves for fear the youth who had to do with them should catch their distempers.” This account is an early record of screening applied in the cause of community medicine and antedates by at least five centuries, the use of medical examination for the apparently healthy to prevent the spread of disease.
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