Doctor Explains Bizarre History of Pregnancy Tests

Today' we're going through historical methods of testing for pregnancy. I don't care if 3 people watch this video, it's the best and most interesting video I've ever made. Frogs, onions, drinking pee? Let's jump into it.

Resources:
Ancient Egyptian Wheat Testing: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1034829/
History of Yesterday Article: https://historyofyesterday.com/ancient-egyptian-pregnancy-test-f0a9cebaac1b
Rise & Fall of Uroscopy: https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/sites/default/files/kamaledeen_0.pdf
Piss Prophets: http://www.forbiddenhistories.com/2019/04/uromancy-lindsey-fitzharris/
Master’s Thesis by Claire McEwen Duncan: https://open.library.ubc.ca/soa/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0105148
Medieval Urine Wheels video by Dr. Lindsay Fitzharris: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf90Kop7Cz4
Forbidden Histories - Divination and Medicine: http://www.forbiddenhistories.com/2019/04/uromancy-lindsey-fitzharris/
Étienne Joseph Jacquemin, disocverer of ‘Chadwick’s sign’: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4925842/
The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/06/history-home-pregnancy-test/396077/
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/05/how-a-frog-became-the-first-mainstream-pregnancy-test/525285/
Harvard “Science in the News”: https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2018/pee-pregnant-history-science-urine-based-pregnancy-tests/
National Institutes of Health: https://history.nih.gov/display/history/Pregnancy+Test+Timeline
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