Word: colostrum
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...colostrum test is valid as early as two weeks after conception. This trigger-quickness is bested only by the ten-day interval of the Friedman rabbit test...
...test works a good deal like skin-testing for allergy. The test material is colostrum-a thin, watery fluid secreted in the breasts of gravid women. From them colostrum is extracted, mixed with sterile salt solution and a preservative chemical, stored under refrigeration to await use. To make a Falls test, a small amount of the colostrum preparation is injected into a woman's forearm. If she is not pregnant, a reddish weal will appear. If she is pregnant she will not react. Theory is that pregnant women, secreting colostrum of their own, are immune to injections...
Milk. At childbirth the mother's breasts yield a yellowish, sticky fluid called colostrum. This is good for the child, although it is only slightly nourishing. Yet it is laxative and prepares the child's stomach for true milk, which arrives shortly after...