Word: aschheim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prove pregnancy in its early stages, obstetricians generally use a simple urine test. In the Aschheim-Zondek test, they inject a female mouse with a urine specimen; in the Friedman test (faster and easier to read), a virgin doe rabbit gets the injection. If the patient is pregnant, hormones in the urine produce easily detectable changes in the animal's ovaries. The Friedman test, which takes two days to complete, can spot pregnancy with 98% accuracy* ten days after the first missed period...
...medical literature. Most famous case: Mary Tudor, Queen of England. In addition to a distended abdomen, a woman may present other signs of pregnancy such as amenorrhea (absence or suppression of menstruation), full breasts, fetal movements, etc. If a doctor is at all suspicious, a biological test, like the Aschheim-Zondek pregnancy test, will solve the problem. But a few doctors have been taken in by the symptoms...