Although pregnancy tests looked a little different than the ones people use today, women have sought these tests dating back to ancient Egypt in 1350 B.C.
The practice of peeing on seeds persisted for a remarkably long time. Variations of the ancient pregnancy test appeared in the writings of the Greek Philosopher Galen and in German folklore, as late as 1966.feature an unusual variation of the germination test, repurposed to determine infertility. According to one of his contemporaries, the Greek philosopher instructed childless couples to plant two barley seeds and water one with the man’s urine and the other with the woman’s.
At the height of uroscopy, some doctors still believed that pregnant urine possessed a life-generating substance. Adescribed how the urine should be placed in a glass bottle. After three days “small animals, looking like little lice, will appear; if these are red, they say that they predict that a male has been conceived, if white, a female.”
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