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There are three standard chemical tests for diagnosing early pregnancy. All depend on the fact that the urine of gravid women contains hormones which affect certain animals when the urine is injected into them. All these tests are about 98% accurate...
...yawning graves and skittering ghosts; no two-headed dogs were seen; no lioness whelped in the street. There were no such signs or portents anywhere. Yet very soon now, on a Monday at high noon, a U. S. President would be inaugurated for a third term-a fact as gravid with significance to the U. S. as Julius Caesar's fatal Ides of March were to Rome...
...Rochester, N. Y., a gravid cat sauntered up the aisle of fashionable Christ Episcopal Church during the curate's sermon, gave birth to four kittens in front of the baptismal font...
...ordinary year Editor Wier's weighty off spring might have taken first prize. But this week another lusty 8-lb. volume, The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians,† was brought forth by portly Oscar Thompson. Editor Thompson, who had groaned for two and a half gravid years under the weight of his lexicographic burden, had been helped over the bumps by nearly a hundred of today's leading musical experts, all of whom wrote special articles for it. With check lists of the works of every important composer, condensed plots of 213 operas, more than...
...thus withheld some information of interest to women, he was frank about the uses of his toads. When away from their native habitat they will not lay eggs naturally. However, if they receive a hypodermic injection of urine from a pregnant woman they invariably produce a few eggs. Non-gravid or male urine fails to affect them. "Therefore," smiled Dr. Matsner, "at 16? apiece they are the cheapest, most reliable indicator of pregnancy which we have- cheaper than rabbits or guinea pigs, which must be killed before they reveal the uncertain woman's condition: more reliable than bitterlings...