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In the 1700's,How did they know if they were pregnant? Ok, I don't specifically mean the 1700's, but that sort of period. How could they tell if they were pregnant? They had no pregnancy tests,
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1350 BCE
One of the earliest written records of a urine-based pregnancy test can be found in an ancient Egyptian document. A papyrus described a test in which a woman who might be pregnant could urinate on wheat and barley seeds over the course of several days: Testing of this theory in 1963 found that 70 percent of the time, the urine of pregnant women did promote growth, while the urine of non-pregnant women and men did not. Middle Ages through the Seventeenth Century
Using visual aspects of urine to detect pregnancy became a popular method.