Primitive Folk
Primitive pregnancy tests: what kind of folk remedy-diagnostics tests were used to determine pregnancy…….?
Before modern tests and before it becomes obvious…?
When a woman missed a period and wasn’t sure, how could they test to determine if it was due to pregnancy or stress?
What kind of detectable chemical changes take place?
What materials would be used to detect the changes…?
I’m guessing some kind of plant or other natural (relatively unprocessed) material.
What plant or animal would it come from?
What substitutes might be used if the most commonly used variety was not available?
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The ancient Egyptians watered bags of wheat and barley with the urine of a possibly pregnant woman. Germination indicated pregnancy, and based on what type of grain sprouted they predicted the gender of the fetus. Hippocrates suggested that a woman who had missed her period should drink a solution of honey in water at bedtime. Resulting abdominal distention and cramps would indicate the presence of a pregnancy. Avicenna and many physicians after him in the Middle Ages performed uroscopy, a nonscientific method to evaluate urine. Selmar Aschheim and Bernhard Zondek introduced testing based on the presence of hCG in 1928.[7]
In the Aschheim and Zondek test an infantile female mouse was injected subcutaneously with urine of the person to be tested, and some time later the mouse was killed and dissected. Presence of ovulation indicated that the urine contained hCG and meant that the person was pregnant. A similar test was developed using immature rabbits, the rabbit test. Here, too, it was necessary to kill the animal to check its ovaries. An improvement arrived with the frog test that was still used in the 1950s. A female frog was injected with serum or urine of the patient. If the frog produced eggs within the next 24 hours, the test was positive. In the frog test, the animal remained alive, and could be used again.
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