I was just about to leave a comment on the different implications of the word "bare" vs. "bear"! 😆 BTW, I love your content! Thank you for putting in so much work to educate the masses!
I'm going to watch the whole thing, I promise. But 58 seconds in my brain is going "PAP-aris....pa-PY-rus....PAP-aris....pa-PY-rus" and I had to let it out or I was going to explode.
@@fifiroux for real though. I kept shouting Pa pie rus!!!!!! Then I laughed at myself because I was home alone watching this and shouting at my phone. The medical word that always kills me depending on how it's said is duodenum... They say it duo deenum or dew wad a nem and I'm like ugh just day it the way I learned it and let's call it a day!
I’ve heard a lot of “please don’t put ___ in your vagina” on this channel. Luckily I don’t think my bf questions the weird shit he hears from tv shows/UA-cam videos anymore 😂
Using pomegranate halves as a pessary was a thing. The Daily Fail also claimed that a woman was hospitalized after attempting to use a potato as a contraceptive device, but… Daily Fail, so take it with a grain of… garlic salt?
My grandma found out she was pregnant with her 6th and last baby only because she was on the operating table for a hysterectomy when they cut her open, they said, “OOPS! This is occupied! No hysterectomy today!” 😂😱😳 My aunt is alive and well today but YIKES! I imagine this probably happened more often than we know. Edit to add: grandma is 93. She’s a freaking warrior. She has only one lung thanks to TB. And the other one is only partially functional. She has died before and was brought back after an insane amount of time with no neuro deficits. She amazes me! Grateful she’s still with us. I have lots of stories recorded because they are so amazing.
Even as recently in 2016, my friend went in for her hysterectomy. Mandatory ultrasound before the procedure. The ultrasound tech: We are going to cancel your surgery. My friend: why? Ultrasound tech: you are 12 weeks pregnant 🤣
I can confirm that Claire McEwen Duncan is my little sis and she not only graduated with honours from her Masters Thesis but went on to also complete her PHD 🙌 Love the shoutout
The egyptians were really the most advanced society in human history. down to their pregnancy tests. it never ceases to amaze me what knowledge they had
Same. After doing so much studying surrounding Ancient Egypt throughout my life and taking different history classes on it, it's beyond fascinating how advanced they were for the time they were in.
really.... you think with all their slavery and other human rights abuses, surgery with out anesthesia and other physical tortures, you think that they are the most advanced in human history??? I think i'm glad you're not in charge of making policy decisions for the world...
Definitely my favorite era to study. I was so fascinated with so much of their medical learning and advancements in college. My favorite was learning that honey was used in wounds of patients and soldiers because it was antimicrobial and aided in healing... In 2018 had a horrible cesarean recovery and went home open with a wound vac. They used honey on sterile dressings to help me heal. I was open from mid October to mid January and boy did it hurt, but the wound did close.
(I know someone is going to be annoyed for me bringing this up but this really came to mind) Just imagine, on the same continent People from there are viewed as being the least intelligent There is no stupid race/ethnicity
@@jasminespencer2872 agreed. however, some societies, often composed of many races, that are more advanced than others. in terms of architecture and the like.
My mom was an Analytical Chemist working in a lab in the 80s and realized she had all the equipment she needed to do her own pregnancy test at work. So she did. One of her female colleagues saw it and knew what it was and congratulated her on her pregnancy.
I had a reproductive physiology professor who was developing a hCG ELISA and thought she was providing a negative control. Nope. But, hey, the test worked!
Tasting urine was actually really important because for most of history it was the only accurate test for diabetes! Diabetes mellitus literally means "urine that tastes like honey"
I do recall a story several years back of a man who found out his partner was becoming diabetic because her urine smelled sweeter than usual, before she or her doctors thought to test for it. iirc they were getting intimate at the time, and presumably he waited til after to let her know. I recall it being a very bizarre news story to hear in the extremely prudish area I'm from, lol. Led me down a rabbit hole of "medical issues you wouldn't think you can smell but some people/animals can", which is a pretty neat rabbit hole imo haha
@@blaireshoe8738 actually, one of the first flags of diabetes in most animals is sticky, sweet urine, which u can usually smell, so more people need to know this
@@skippy.9865 So a diabetic with a yeast infection is a bar tap. Got it. *Sigh* I have T1 diabetes, and still couldn't stop myself from making this joke. I'm both amused and disappointed with myself.
I wonder if in 50yrs medical historians will be like "remember when people used to have to actually pee on a stick to find out if they were pregnant, instead of just getting a notification from their wearable tech (e.g. fitbit etc)?" Thank you for a very interesting video, I really enjoyed watching it :)
Technology already exists that could do this, though I’m not sure it’s as reliable as a urine pregnancy test. Basal body temperature (BBT) increases after ovulation until menstruation. If the temperature stays elevated for over 14 days, it’s a sign of pregnancy. There are wearables marketed specifically to measure bbt for people trying to conceive or avoid pregnancy. Urine pregnancy tests still have an advantage though because some can detect pregnancy earlier.
@@blackmber I was just wondering if temperature could work. I've heard that taking temp to know if fertile works better when you have a strict routine and aren't sick though.
My first child "told me" I was pregnant when she was 14 months old; she started fussing when on the boob, pulling off with a sour look on her face - she essentially finished weaning herself over a couple of weeks (during which time I became "morning" sick for the next 8 months). They're 17 and almost 19, now!
My oldest son did that too! My boys are a year apart, so he was only ~5 months old, and I couldn't figure out why he wasn't nursing. He'd latch on, drink for a minute or so before letting go and screaming at us. It was pretty harrowing because he was so little. We'd supplemented with formula on occasion for convenience, so he ended up switching completely. They're 18 and 17 now, with my oldest finishing his first year of University next week, and my younger son graduating in two weeks, which is crazy!
@@amberlinmchugh8115 Actually, newborns can be breast-fed while an older baby/toddler is also still feeding (not at the same time, maybe), it just depends on Mum, older babe and newborn's circumstances and preferences. The breast is purely reactionary - a newborn's suckling is weaker and of shorter duration than an older babe's, so the "let down" or production alters accordingly. Men really don't give boobs the credit/treatment they deserve!
I know male giraffes will taste female giraffe urine to get information on where they are in their hormonal cycle to see if they're receptive to breeding so the idea of tasting urine to get information on female bodies hormones isn't completely out there even if it sounds weird. Luckily we have verbal language and OTC pregnancy tests so we don't need to go around drinking your partners urine.
When a mare is in heat, she will turn her behind towards a stallion (or sometimes random other horses, especially geldings) and squirt out a little urine. The stallion (and sometimes random other horses) will then do the 'fleming reflex'. A weird thing, were they stretch their necks out and up and draw back their upper lip as far as possible, sucking in as much air as possible. Because they as well can smell the estrous specific hormones in the mares urine. Animal's sense of smell is amazing. We can't even imagine the amount of information, they get about the world and each other just with their noses.
@@raraavis7782 I really suggest people see videos of this. It's the strangest thing to see a stallion do. I saw a video of a stallion doing that before I knew what it was doing or why and i laughed at the way the face contorted.
How about a story on menopause myths, or surprising facts? I'm kind of disinclined to believe that labia minora can be reabsorbed by the body after menopause. (Yes, gynecologist told me that.)
@@judymcgowan2881 holy shit i am officially terrified! I just turned 40. I am going to get hormonal replacement therapy till I die. I'm not doing menopause. period.
“Please don’t put onions in your vagina. I would just recommend going and peeing on some cereal to see if it sprouts instead” Lmao!! I’m so dead!! That was hilarious
I’ve been a medical lab tech for 26 years. One of the ladies that trained me in chemistry did the frog tests…in fact, part of the lab walk in fridge was designated for frog storage.
My grandmother worked for almost 50 years in the lab of a small town hospital. She used the "frog test" many times and even used that test to find out she was pregnant with my mom.
One of my favorite classic movies is "People Will Talk" starring Cary Grant and Jeanne Craine. The premise: he's a gyn with a progressive practice (for 1946) that treats the whole patient rather than just her symptoms. She's a college student that thinks she might be pregnant by a short-lived romance with a sailor. She goes to his clinic, claiming to be Mrs. So&so (1946), and he happily tells her the frog is pregnant. She tries to .... do bad things to herself while walking out of his clinic, he saves her, and when she wakes up he LIES and tells her it was the Wrong Frog. But now he's in trouble b/c, ya know, he LIED, so he drives out to the farm where she lives with a nasty uncle and her inept father. Dr. feels bad and instead if telling the Truth, asks her to marry him. *face palm A couple weeks later she realizes she really is pregnant, and she says, "I think December." "September." "No, dear, December." "September." "Well unless they've changed how long it takes or came up with a new way to count, I say December." "They haven't changed anything. You're just not starting back far enough." They proceed to have an argument -- you married me b/c you felt sorry for me, Yada Yada. And then: "You came out to the farm to tell me the truth, didn't you, but by then you'd already told that lie about the Wrong Frog...." It all ends well, but I wouldn't use that movie in an ethics class! 😂 just thought of it when you were talking about the frogs.
PLEASE DO MORE HISTORICAL OBGYN PLEASE! I remember coming across a book on pregnancy In The Wild West and one of the things I was able to find out from the BOOK was that Women Divorce their Husband to not get Pregnant. Please do a Video with Abby Cox or Nicole Rudolph on Pregnancy Corsets because if Women are using some kind of type to help Support them than why not bring back something that will also hide the pregnancy bump.
My husband doesn't watch much UA-cam. He knows Dr Mike as "the chest compressions guy" and MDJ as the "if your vagina is sick, take it to a doctor" lady. 🤣
I'm a frog biologist and I use that info all the time, highschool students love it. when I was doing IVF during my research the frogs and I were getting the same hormones. The use of frogs for pregnancy testing has caused some huge ecological problems as lab frogs were moved around the world to labs moving disease etc.
Five years ago, after having sex with a person who could have theoretically gotten me pregnant and not having had a period in nearly two years due to expected early menopause. A couple weeks later, I started getting really nauseous in the mornings and my breasts became tender, so I did the reasonable thing and took a pregnancy test. And then a second one because the first one showed the faintest of pale pink lines. So did the second. I went and got a proper pregnancy test through my doctor's office, who confirmed that I was indeed post-menopausal and not pregnant.
i'd love to see you have a conversation/interview with Rachael the Try Guys Producer. She survived breast cancer and then had twins. I'd love for you to talk about how cancer influences fertility and breast feeding
I remember when my old history teacher was telling us about how doctors used to test for diabetes using urine iirc and when all of us looked disgusted, he went, "What? It's not like they're drinking it. They just taste and spit" I loved that teacher so much 🤣
Yeah, the urine of someone with diabetes will taste sweet because their body isn't producing enough insulin to deal with their blood sugar, so it gets expelled in the urine.
I mean yeah, and that taste makes perfect sense if you think about it - the body can dump excess sugar through urine. If sugar is chronically high, you develop extreme thirst, specifically so your body has more water to make more urine to dump more sugar. Because you're dumping sugar through your urine, it tastes sweet. Producing large amounts of sweet urine is literally where the name of the disease comes from - diabetes mellitus. The former being a Greek word meaning to siphon or pass through and the latter being a Latin word meaning sweet - what passes through you is sweet, it's very descriptive.
Uromancy would be pronounced "euro-man-see", following the same pronunciation pattern of necromancy. If I recall correctly, "mancy" is a Greek suffix that essentially means performing magic. The prefix "uro" or "necro" refer to the area of magic they're practicing.
@@saschamayer4050 exactly! Cartomancy is card magic, like tarot cards (although I kinda wish card trick magicians were included) and I always get it mixed up with cartography (maps, map reading, and map making)
Hi, And greetings from Germany. That really long word at the beginning of the title of this paper is the name of a hormone. Most Germans would struggle with this word while reading out loud as well. Anyway, I love history and this topic is amazing. I would be interested in more historical women topics. How women handled period pains or how fertility problems were dealt with. STDs are also interesting in a historical context.
I actually started taking a pregnancy test monthly on the first day of my cycle because of this channel. My husband and I were not trying to have a baby but I ended up pregnant. I scheduled an appointment with my gyno and she was asking questions, when was your last period, were you trying to have a baby... then was super confused when I told her that I was not trying. I had to confess that I started testing because I was watching your reaction videos to "I didn't know I was pregnant" show.
Imagine someone doing the frog test being like "Ok, it's been 13 hours, you're' not pregnant" Goes about daily life Has baby "But you said I wasn't pregnant!" "Oh, sorry madam, it turns out the frog we used was male, and therefore could not lay eggs." Jokes aside, this was a very interesting and informative video, and I am glad that you enjoy looking this stuff up. THANKS MDJ!!
I wonder how many days they needed to wait in-between test for the frog to have new eggs to produce. It seems like it wasn't something a frog could do daily, plus that would be a ton of shots. Ouch
@@nleem3361 It would take some research into what exact species they preferred to use and then... likely as not... The whole reason we'd know things like gestation period and how regularly they "CAN" mate and produce offspring would be from the research, development, and eventual practice of these pregnancy tests... If you wanted a figure off the top of my head... Since frogs tend to have a specifically short mating season, like some 3 to 6 weeks out of a year, and nature tends to prioritize recovery before other processes, I'd hazard a test could be feasibly administered 2 or maybe 3 times yearly per frog... giving us about 3 to 4 months minimum for the frog to get enough nutrition and time to recover and start developing a fresh clutch of eggs for the next cycle... BUT that's just an educated speculation, nothing particularly concrete. ;o)
I'm a gay man and I have no desire to father (or mother) a child. But I am addicted to your videos! You fight the good fight daily and I love watching it! Big, big fan here!
An onion maybe a first for some, but I guarantee ER nurses have seen lots of things stuck in there. The sight and the smells forever burned into their brains.
My uncle was a walking pregnancy test. He just looked at someone and said 'you are pregnant with a girl' and she was. He did this several times and knew before my mum that she's pregnant with me. In fact he told her to do a test, because the OBGYN thought that she has cyst. And he, the same day told her 'no way, you're just early pregnant, do a test' and here I am. To this day we are wondering how on earth he did that.
My grandmother used to tell me stories about the rabbit dying for the tests if it was positive. She is very much against the anti abortion thoughts because of how many of her friends died from coat hanger abortions. Fun facts don't play cards against humanity with old people, because they'll have stories to go with the cards.
I only learned the euphemism "the rabbit died" about 12 years ago. I had a pet rabbit and she died while I was away at college. My mom told my best friend that "the rabbit died" and my friend asked, "Who's pregnant?" I was confused when mom told me the story. She had to explain what it meant. A couple of years after that, I watched the M*A*S*H episode where the head nurse, Major Houlihan, thought she was pregnant so the doctors used Radar's rabbit to test. So that they didn't unalive the bunny, they just spayed it. The test was negative.
That episode was the first thing that came to my mind as well! There is also the song "Sweet Emotion" by Aerosmith that mentions something about "you can't catch me cuz the rabbit done died" that also came to mind.
@@Comptonisa "The rabbit died" is a phrase used to indicate a woman is pregnant. It's related to the rabbit test for pregnancy. A rabbit is injected with a woman's urine. The rabbit is then dissected after a certain about of time to examine the rabbit's ovaries to see if they enlarged and matured. A common misconception is that the rabbit only died if the woman was pregnant.
My grandma worked in a hospital lab when she was young and would tell us stories of injecting animals, mainly rabbits, with urine to perform pregnancy tests. Always blew my mind.
I’m laughing, I’m only to the onion one but when she was talking about increased blood flow, it reminded me of my doctors appointment I had when I got pregnant this time and my Nurse Practitioner had someone training with her and since they had just finished a Pap smear, my NP showed her student the place in my uterus that you could feel my pulse transvaginally. She said it could only be felt that way when someone was pregnant. It just made me think of it and it was awkward and I wanted to share 😅
My first three babies were born at U***, a teaching hospital. I was actually ok with medical students, interns, “short coats” learning on me. Everyone begins learning somewhere and if I can be part of the process that builds good doctors, nurses, then yeah, easy call. As a Veteran I still am part of that. My VA Hospital is connected to the same University and Hospital. I do laugh though when I think about those first VA Hospital Appointments in the early ‘80s, as a female Veteran I was a bit of an anomaly. I went in unDXed abdominal pain one evening, My exam room had a nurse, a resident, suddenly 2 doctors, then 5, then I was moved to a larger exam room 🤣🤣🤣. I said to the nurse, what did he do, put out a bulletin? The VA never did DX that abdominal pain and it happened several more times. We have an idea now though. I had an ovarian cyst removed last November, it was larger than my uterus!! So freaking glad THAT ONE DIDN’T RUPTURE!!!
I recently watched Look who's talking. It was made in 1990 and it includes a home pregnancy test. I was born in 91 and was curious what the test my mom used was like. She didn't use one! She just knew, didn't want to spend $15 on a home test, so she just went to the doctor.
That was me. Didn't want to waste time and money on a test, so I just went to ky doctor. It was early in the pregnancy...I was like a week late. But I knew, and the test agreed.
I love "Look Who's Talking"! I, too, have often wondered about the pregnancy test Molly uses in the movie. It's definitely not the modern pee-on-a-stick kind. She uses a dropper of blue liquid of some sort?
@@summermazur3064 yeah. She has a whole glass vile set up. I watched the original Degrassi Junior High and Degrassi High shows, and the Twin's (can't remember which one it was) having a 2 hour test! I will gladly take the 2 minute tests of today. Even dip strips.
I took one once, it involved putting some urine in a test tube and adding drops of a reactant swirling the mixture for a few seconds then placing it in a holder that came with the kit. There was a mirror set at an angle and an area that light shone through. If after two hours a circle was viewed on the area projected toward you were pregnant. The setup could not be moved or disturbed at all during the two hours or the “reading” or the test was not valid. There was a minimum time after last menstrual period (how late you were) for it to be valid. I think you had to be at least ten days late. If it was negative you were instructed to take another test 2-4 days later to allow hcg levels to increase, or menses to occur; or go to MD for blood test especially if you had pain in ovarian area.
OK, how did that test with the rat/rabbit turn into "the rabbit died" as the stand-in for a positive pregnancy test? My wife had a really reliable pregnancy test. Car sickness. After our experience with our first, I knew she was pregnant with our 2nd when she started complaining about car sickness again.
Apparently no one knows. I've looked into this before and I could never find anything. People just assumed that the pregnant urine killed the rabbit and that's how they knew the test was positive. I guess people didn't want to think about rabbits being cut open. (I understand, I don't want to think about that either) Maybe "the rabbit died" is a very dramatic way to get around censors and not say the word "pregnant" on tv?
10:25 My mom said that every time she got pregnant, her vision improved. Being incredibly skeptical (she believes a lot of weird stuff), I didn’t believe her. When I had my first kid, my optometrist kept checking my eyes and referring back to my chart. I finally asked her what was going on. She replied “You’re vision has improved! That doesn’t make sense.” I laughed and told her about my mom. Sure enough, when second kiddo came along… yet another improvement. My eyes haven’t changed since I had my first kid 15 years ago except to get better. She joked that if I had another 10 kids, I’d have perfect vision. Nope. HARD PASS!
My husband researches eyes and he told me that vision changes are really common during/after pregnancy. Hormones are so much more influential than many of us realize. Unfortunately my vision got worse!
I am so grateful for pregnancy tests. I had been tracking my ovulation and swore I already ovulated and missed my fertile window. So, I continued my life like I was good for the rest of the month and only had unprotected sex once. A week before my missed period my boobs hurt but that wasn't unusual. Something told me to take a test even though I had no symptoms (and wouldn't for well over a month). Low and behold I was pregnant. I was able to stop drinking and vaping and take my prenatal vitamins again. This baby is very wanted and planned, she was just made in a gap month. Tomorrow I'll be 35 weeks 😊
This reminds me of when i was a teenager and we found a baby bunny on our front porch. We called the local wild animal rescue but they couldn't do anything and the bunny died. My mom was talking to my aunt and told her "the bunny died" and my aunt says "omg who's pregnant!??". Took my mom awhile to stop laughing so she could explain to me the connection between a rabbit dying and possible teenage pregnancy 😂
@@Aufeii "The rabbit died" is a phrase used to indicate a woman is pregnant. It's related to the rabbit test for pregnancy. A rabbit is injected with a woman's urine. The rabbit is then dissected after a certain about of time to examine the rabbit's ovaries to see if they enlarged and matured. A common misconception is that the rabbit only died if the woman was pregnant.
I was named after a friend of my mother's who worked in a lab. I was born in 1964. Once I was older, my mother explained that Bridget did pregnancy testing using frogs! I was today years old when I found out how Bridget did this! I'd always wondered...
In China, people just used a pulse to detect pregnancy. You have to have training and experience in TCM to be able to do so accurately though, so it's not something people can just do at home. I think you also have to be several months along for the results to be accurate, which kinda defeats the purpose of having a pregnancy test to begin with.
I think it's also worth mentioning that if you take a pregnancy test and it comes out positive, but there's no possible way you could be pregnant (for example, I haven't had sex in like 5 years) than it could actually be an indication of cancer. I've also heard that it works to detect testicular cancer.
Or it means you ate poppy seeds. Myth busters actually did that once, the guys ate poppy seeds and peed on a pregnancy test and it came back positive. *All* of them were cis, so very clearly that wasn’t possible. Not sure if that’s something that happens with modern pee sticks or not, as it’s been a long while since that episode, but still… At least… I’m pretty sure that was the episode… it was quite a long time ago…
The early home pregnancy tests were in use when I was having kids (early to mid-1980s). They felt like I was doing a science experiment. Put so many drops of first-morning urine into a small test tube, and place it on a stand that had a mirror under it. I think I had to wait a couple of hours and if a dark brown ring formed in the bottom of the test tube, it was positive.
MDJ, I LOVE your videos. However, as a woman of *a certain age,* I would really appreciate more content regarding menopause. And endometriosis, and adenomyosis, and how they are diagnosed and treated. Thank you for all you do.
So I was 2 days late last week and thought of your advice. Went and bought a test came home and took it and it was negative. Like five minutes later my period came. Thanks universe for scaring me and then laughing about it.
I don’t know how many times I’ve taken a test and started my period hours or a day after, this was in the old days when I used to have sex 😅best to get ahead of things and know what’s what though.
Could you make a video about how to deal with invasive exams or intimate exams in general for people who have PTSD? I know how important these types of tests are but can't get over the anxiety it causes, I love you and your videos and would love to hear your suggestions for these issues
This really needs a part two! How did we get from frogs to pee sticks? How long have pee sticks been around for? How reliable are they? Please give us the history leading up to 1978 and through any interesting modern developments.
Ummmm...personally, I get offended when the ER insists on a pregnancy test before an xray, and charge me for it, when I am post hysterectomy and bilateral oomphorectomy. And am abstinent. Pretty sure I am NOT pregnant.
Tl:dr, I totally get where you're coming from, but I understand their reasoning as well. The ER probably doesn't have access to your medical record right when you get there, and some of the treatments they use could be dangerous if used on someone who's pregnant. I'm sure that you yourself are a reliable source of information, but they can't tell someone has had a hysterectomy by looking at them, and I'm also sure they get patients all the time who swear they couldn't possibly be pregnant and turn out to be pregnant after all, so their policy is to test every time. I'm in a similar situation - my husband had a vasectomy years ago, and I'm on my third hormonal IUD, but they check anytime I need imagining done, which has been a lot recently, as I've ended up in the ER twice in the last 7 months. I've had an MRI, three CT scans, and an EEG within a four month period. (A seizure, my first and hopefully only, and a large kidney stone.) I've also been one of the ones who was sure they weren't pregnant, though at a doctor's office, not the ER. After all, I was there because I was having an extra hard period which had lasted ~2 weeks. Nope, turns out that I was about 5 weeks pregnant and my oldest originally had a twin that wasn't viable and I was having a partial miscarriage. My son's totally fine, and will finish his first year of university next week, but the hours between getting that news and having that first ultrasound was horrible.
This is awesome!! I LOVE the history of Medicine!! Next, could you please do historical gynaecology tools and instruments??? :) OK, I'm off to read Claire McEwen Duncan's thesis :D
I completely agree with thinking eyes are gross. I’m in nursing school right now, and I don’t think anything has made my skin crawl more than listening to descriptions of eye injuries (except maybe learning about 3rd and 4th degree burns). Thank goodness for specialist.
Fun fact. Medieval monks tested pregnancy using frogs. They would pour urine onto the frog, and if the frog changed colors, then the woman was pregnant. It was apparently pretty accurate and worked similar to how the pregnancy test strips of today work. Just with a frog instead. I’m amazed about how innovative people were in testing pregnancy and the capacity of frogs to test for pregnancy. My great-grandma found out she was pregnant with my grandpa through the inject urine into a frog test. But she was poor so she caught her own frog. My grandma did pretty much the same thing when finding out she was pregnant with my dad and two of his siblings. At home tests were already a thing when the other three children were born.
Chinese medicine also had an interesting way, checking pulses. It's proven very unreliable, but it's featured a lot in Qing Dynasty dramas such as Ruyi's Royal love and YangXi Palace.
After watching like 3 Chinese dramas I started to think they used checking pulses for any possible illnesses/ alignments. And that there was no way for it t be very reliable. :D
I mean we kinda use “uromancy/urine wheels” as a initial diagnosis today. The first step in determining a UTI is often an examination of the appearance of urine, including color, consistency (visible skin cells, blood globs, white clumps, etc) and cloudiness. I’ not sure if pregnancy urine is at all distinguishable but even today in medicine we can use the smell (sweet could mean diabetic, UTI’s can have a scent to it, etc).
My understanding is that married ladies of the 50s,60s, ish would just wait and assume if they were regular and missed a couple of periods. The demand for pregnancy testing was much lower than today.
Do you think maybe those ancient urine drinkers could actually taste the hormone inside pregnant urine? People might think "No way they could taste the difference" but it's not like we know from experience. Maybe it does taste different. 🤣
Slang for "are you pregnant?" used to include "did the rabbit die?" referencing one of these tests. I was born in the 50s and this was pretty commonly known slang. Glad those days are gone.
I had actually been wondering about how pregnancy tests came about, you read my mind! 😂 I didn't get very far into my personal research of them so this video is just what I was needing, thanks!
So the ancient pregnancy test by peeing on grain made me check something out, when you mentioned hormones might be part of it. There is a rooting hormone thats commonly used to make cuttings root faster. This powder often has indole-3-acetic acid in it. Which seems to be some sort of leftover from serotonin, and melantonin. With both we know it lightens your mood, makes you feel happier. So usually pregnant women are discribed as happier, brighter facial expression. People always claim they can tell if a woman is pregnant by the way she smiles. So maybe a pregnant women produces more serotonin and/or melantonin and thus produces more indole-3-acetic acid. So when she pees on the grain she has more of the "rooting" hormone in her urine. It might actually make sense on a scientific level.
So I had to follow up this great lead, and found a paper from 2018, “The dynamic serotonin system of the maternal brain.” Apparently pregnant women in the 2nd trimester and beyond have more serotonin metabolites (breakdown products) in their cerebrospinal fluid. It would make sense for lots of serotonin metabolites to be in their urine too. I think you’ve solved this mystery!
Hi! Would you be able to make a video about menopause including hormonal replacement therapy and/or the combined pill as an alternative and their differences please? Love your videos btw very educative :)
I like how James Read Chadwick gave Etienne Joseph Jacquemin credit for his idea and Chadwick was the one who became well-known for it. How many times in history that someone profited from an idea/ invention that wasn't theirs?
This is definitely one of my favorite videos! I love how excited you get when your talking about this stuff!! You’d be such a great professor! You’re students would actually go to class because of how fun and entertaining you are! Much love from back home in the states! 💗💗💗
When my mom was pregnant with me (forth child), she showed the doctor her NFP / temperature charts and he told her, she couldn’t be pregnant. However, my mom insisted on him testing her and here I am. She never took a test, she just knew from her symptoms and went to the doctor, because paying for a test herself was to expensive.
My mom knew she was pregnant with me, I'm a third child ...not her first rodeo. But ... they didn't believe her because she was 39. Constant nope nope nope. Even refused to test her formally, then she got a new doctor. Here I am. Lol.
I was so excited to see some art history brought up in the video. I used to teach medical humanities to nurses and pre-med students. I used these types of artworks to show how medicine has changed over time and through art. I have a deep love for medieval anatomy texts! The little person inside the vial is called a homunculus.
I wish my grandma was still alive so I could ask her about her experiences with testing for pregnancy in the 50s and 60s. Five kids, I know she had some stories.
Genuine apologies for the emotional damage my Texan pronunciation or my editors synonym typo incited. Please send an invoice for damages. 😉
I was just about to leave a comment on the different implications of the word "bare" vs. "bear"! 😆 BTW, I love your content! Thank you for putting in so much work to educate the masses!
I'm going to watch the whole thing, I promise. But 58 seconds in my brain is going "PAP-aris....pa-PY-rus....PAP-aris....pa-PY-rus" and I had to let it out or I was going to explode.
This fellow Texan didn’t notice. 😂
@@fifiroux for real though. I kept shouting Pa pie rus!!!!!! Then I laughed at myself because I was home alone watching this and shouting at my phone.
The medical word that always kills me depending on how it's said is duodenum... They say it duo deenum or dew wad a nem and I'm like ugh just day it the way I learned it and let's call it a day!
Just letting you know there's a spam account posing as you in the comments
Unless you're suddenly into bitcoin etherium mining?
That ancient "pee on the grain" pregnancy test had a roughly 80-85% accuracy rate. Which is pretty impressive for an ancient era pregnancy detection.
I was going to comment the same thing! It's such a strange but fascinating topic to learn about.
Absolutely insane! I'm really curious about the circumstances leading to the discovery tho XD
The ancient Egyptians were way ahead of their time!
Also, super bonus points for having a relatively non-invasive way of testing, as opposed to killing rodents and forcing amphibians to lay eggs.
Russians also used the grain test
My husband walked into the room just as you said the "please do not put an onion in your vagina" part and gave me a very confused look.
He must have thought we put onions in there all the time XD
Then he definitely needs to watch MDJ with You 😍
😂🤣
I’ve heard a lot of “please don’t put ___ in your vagina” on this channel. Luckily I don’t think my bf questions the weird shit he hears from tv shows/UA-cam videos anymore 😂
Using pomegranate halves as a pessary was a thing.
The Daily Fail also claimed that a woman was hospitalized after attempting to use a potato as a contraceptive device, but… Daily Fail, so take it with a grain of… garlic salt?
My grandma found out she was pregnant with her 6th and last baby only because she was on the operating table for a hysterectomy when they cut her open, they said, “OOPS! This is occupied! No hysterectomy today!” 😂😱😳 My aunt is alive and well today but YIKES! I imagine this probably happened more often than we know.
Edit to add: grandma is 93. She’s a freaking warrior. She has only one lung thanks to TB. And the other one is only partially functional. She has died before and was brought back after an insane amount of time with no neuro deficits. She amazes me! Grateful she’s still with us. I have lots of stories recorded because they are so amazing.
One more reason, why pregnancy tests are mandatory before major medical procedures today 😆👍
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How far into her pregnancy was she?
OMG lol!!! "Oops this is coccupied" lmfaooo!!!
Even as recently in 2016, my friend went in for her hysterectomy. Mandatory ultrasound before the procedure. The ultrasound tech: We are going to cancel your surgery. My friend: why? Ultrasound tech: you are 12 weeks pregnant 🤣
I can confirm that Claire McEwen Duncan is my little sis and she not only graduated with honours from her Masters Thesis but went on to also complete her PHD 🙌 Love the shoutout
Omg I love this so much 🥰😵💫 tell her I’m a fan
Oh this makes me so happy. Thank you. Wishing her all the best
I definitely came to the comments to see if Claire McEwen Duncan had heard about this video and find out how their thesis went!
"Even in Ancient Greece, the vagina was not a vegetable garden." words to live by!
Nor did it wander, nor was it capable of flying out of the body, etc.
A friend of mine decided to try some old and DIY pregnancy tests for fun. One of the ones she did was the onion one. And it got stuck up her vagina.
Omg I actually cackled out loud at that
The egyptians were really the most advanced society in human history. down to their pregnancy tests. it never ceases to amaze me what knowledge they had
Same. After doing so much studying surrounding Ancient Egypt throughout my life and taking different history classes on it, it's beyond fascinating how advanced they were for the time they were in.
really.... you think with all their slavery and other human rights abuses, surgery with out anesthesia and other physical tortures, you think that they are the most advanced in human history??? I think i'm glad you're not in charge of making policy decisions for the world...
Definitely my favorite era to study. I was so fascinated with so much of their medical learning and advancements in college. My favorite was learning that honey was used in wounds of patients and soldiers because it was antimicrobial and aided in healing...
In 2018 had a horrible cesarean recovery and went home open with a wound vac. They used honey on sterile dressings to help me heal. I was open from mid October to mid January and boy did it hurt, but the wound did close.
(I know someone is going to be annoyed for me bringing this up but this really came to mind)
Just imagine, on the same continent
People from there are viewed as being the least intelligent
There is no stupid race/ethnicity
@@jasminespencer2872 agreed. however, some societies, often composed of many races, that are more advanced than others. in terms of architecture and the like.
My mom was an Analytical Chemist working in a lab in the 80s and realized she had all the equipment she needed to do her own pregnancy test at work. So she did. One of her female colleagues saw it and knew what it was and congratulated her on her pregnancy.
I had a reproductive physiology professor who was developing a hCG ELISA and thought she was providing a negative control. Nope. But, hey, the test worked!
Soo cool!
Now I'm envisioning a woman in a chemistry lab periodically checking on a frog in a drawer to see if it's layed eggs.
Oh, wow. Life as a researcher!
Tasting urine was actually really important because for most of history it was the only accurate test for diabetes! Diabetes mellitus literally means "urine that tastes like honey"
There are whiskeys made with diabetics urine due to the sweetness
I do recall a story several years back of a man who found out his partner was becoming diabetic because her urine smelled sweeter than usual, before she or her doctors thought to test for it. iirc they were getting intimate at the time, and presumably he waited til after to let her know. I recall it being a very bizarre news story to hear in the extremely prudish area I'm from, lol. Led me down a rabbit hole of "medical issues you wouldn't think you can smell but some people/animals can", which is a pretty neat rabbit hole imo haha
@@blaireshoe8738 actually, one of the first flags of diabetes in most animals is sticky, sweet urine, which u can usually smell, so more people need to know this
@@skippy.9865 So a diabetic with a yeast infection is a bar tap. Got it.
*Sigh* I have T1 diabetes, and still couldn't stop myself from making this joke. I'm both amused and disappointed with myself.
@@cocobutter3175this is going to live rent free in my head forever… so thank you 🤣🤣🤣 A+ joke 😁
I wonder if in 50yrs medical historians will be like "remember when people used to have to actually pee on a stick to find out if they were pregnant, instead of just getting a notification from their wearable tech (e.g. fitbit etc)?" Thank you for a very interesting video, I really enjoyed watching it :)
Haha that'd be funny if the technology to actually do that is invented XD
Omg yes! An episode of Black Mirror actually did this!!
That would be terrifying tbh haha
Technology already exists that could do this, though I’m not sure it’s as reliable as a urine pregnancy test. Basal body temperature (BBT) increases after ovulation until menstruation. If the temperature stays elevated for over 14 days, it’s a sign of pregnancy. There are wearables marketed specifically to measure bbt for people trying to conceive or avoid pregnancy.
Urine pregnancy tests still have an advantage though because some can detect pregnancy earlier.
@@blackmber I was just wondering if temperature could work. I've heard that taking temp to know if fertile works better when you have a strict routine and aren't sick though.
So “Take a pregnancy test” is your version of Dr Mike’s “Chest compressions” (or vise versa)?😂
and Legal Eagle's version of "don't talk to the police without a lawyer".
@@jamessanders145 they all need to collaborate!!!!!!!
Perfect 😂
@@emilyabigail3644 haven’t they already?
Both
My first child "told me" I was pregnant when she was 14 months old; she started fussing when on the boob, pulling off with a sour look on her face - she essentially finished weaning herself over a couple of weeks (during which time I became "morning" sick for the next 8 months). They're 17 and almost 19, now!
My oldest son did that too! My boys are a year apart, so he was only ~5 months old, and I couldn't figure out why he wasn't nursing. He'd latch on, drink for a minute or so before letting go and screaming at us. It was pretty harrowing because he was so little. We'd supplemented with formula on occasion for convenience, so he ended up switching completely. They're 18 and 17 now, with my oldest finishing his first year of University next week, and my younger son graduating in two weeks, which is crazy!
Very interesting, I wonder why it tasted off. Nature's way of telling baby to grow up and move over, baby brother needs the boob. I'm intrigued
@@amberlinmchugh8115 Actually, newborns can be breast-fed while an older baby/toddler is also still feeding (not at the same time, maybe), it just depends on Mum, older babe and newborn's circumstances and preferences. The breast is purely reactionary - a newborn's suckling is weaker and of shorter duration than an older babe's, so the "let down" or production alters accordingly. Men really don't give boobs the credit/treatment they deserve!
Same, I did the same thing when my mom was pregnant with my younger brother.
My boys are 10 months 2 weeks apart!
"I'm really happy that OBGYNs exist and that I don't have to be one of them"
-An ophthalmologist. Probably.
You mean an opthalmologist?
@@cairrean2412 Yeah, fixed it.
I really went half-Spanish half-English there.
It’s a totally different kind of dilation!
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@@glszq4 🤣🤣🤣
I know male giraffes will taste female giraffe urine to get information on where they are in their hormonal cycle to see if they're receptive to breeding so the idea of tasting urine to get information on female bodies hormones isn't completely out there even if it sounds weird.
Luckily we have verbal language and OTC pregnancy tests so we don't need to go around drinking your partners urine.
When a mare is in heat, she will turn her behind towards a stallion (or sometimes random other horses, especially geldings) and squirt out a little urine. The stallion (and sometimes random other horses) will then do the 'fleming reflex'. A weird thing, were they stretch their necks out and up and draw back their upper lip as far as possible, sucking in as much air as possible.
Because they as well can smell the estrous specific hormones in the mares urine.
Animal's sense of smell is amazing. We can't even imagine the amount of information, they get about the world and each other just with their noses.
@@raraavis7782 I really suggest people see videos of this. It's the strangest thing to see a stallion do. I saw a video of a stallion doing that before I knew what it was doing or why and i laughed at the way the face contorted.
I never knew that about giraffes, very smart!!! "Hmm...doesn't taste like you can get pregnant right now!" LOL.
@@lizreszke6183 Right? LOL
@@lizreszke6183 Lol, this reminds me of the face my cat makes when he smells something interesting on the floor!
It's sooo refreshing to hear anatomically correct words used by someone without no second thought. They aren't dirty or hush hush. They are normal.
How about a story on menopause myths, or surprising facts? I'm kind of disinclined to believe that labia minora can be reabsorbed by the body after menopause. (Yes, gynecologist told me that.)
What? That is absolutely nuts and we FOR SURE need an episode about that. That is NUTS.
Not sure about reabsorbed? but it can definitely shrink and tissue outside and inside gets drier
Well yes it does. I am 71 and the labia minors on myself has shrank away to nothing !!! Just kept smaller and small after 50 .😪
@@judymcgowan2881
What?! 😮
Never heard about that before.
@@judymcgowan2881 holy shit i am officially terrified! I just turned 40. I am going to get hormonal replacement therapy till I die. I'm not doing menopause. period.
“Please don’t put onions in your vagina. I would just recommend going and peeing on some cereal to see if it sprouts instead” Lmao!! I’m so dead!! That was hilarious
I’ve been a medical lab tech for 26 years. One of the ladies that trained me in chemistry did the frog tests…in fact, part of the lab walk in fridge was designated for frog storage.
Same here! We love to hear stories of the frog test
Wild!!
My grandmother worked for almost 50 years in the lab of a small town hospital. She used the "frog test" many times and even used that test to find out she was pregnant with my mom.
One of my favorite classic movies is "People Will Talk" starring Cary Grant and Jeanne Craine. The premise: he's a gyn with a progressive practice (for 1946) that treats the whole patient rather than just her symptoms. She's a college student that thinks she might be pregnant by a short-lived romance with a sailor. She goes to his clinic, claiming to be Mrs. So&so (1946), and he happily tells her the frog is pregnant. She tries to .... do bad things to herself while walking out of his clinic, he saves her, and when she wakes up he LIES and tells her it was the Wrong Frog. But now he's in trouble b/c, ya know, he LIED, so he drives out to the farm where she lives with a nasty uncle and her inept father. Dr. feels bad and instead if telling the Truth, asks her to marry him. *face palm
A couple weeks later she realizes she really is pregnant, and she says, "I think December." "September." "No, dear, December." "September." "Well unless they've changed how long it takes or came up with a new way to count, I say December." "They haven't changed anything. You're just not starting back far enough." They proceed to have an argument -- you married me b/c you felt sorry for me, Yada Yada. And then: "You came out to the farm to tell me the truth, didn't you, but by then you'd already told that lie about the Wrong Frog...."
It all ends well, but I wouldn't use that movie in an ethics class! 😂 just thought of it when you were talking about the frogs.
Omg where can we watch this movie?!?!
@@mellow_mel1313 pretty sure I've watched it on UA-cam sometime in the past few years. People Will Talk
Yeah, there's a classic movie channel on here. Just search it.
PLEASE DO MORE HISTORICAL OBGYN PLEASE! I remember coming across a book on pregnancy In The Wild West and one of the things I was able to find out from the BOOK was that Women Divorce their Husband to not get Pregnant. Please do a Video with Abby Cox or Nicole Rudolph on Pregnancy Corsets because if Women are using some kind of type to help Support them than why not bring back something that will also hide the pregnancy bump.
GREAT suggestions!
That would be amazing! Please see this Mama Doctor Jones!
Your signature phrase "take a pregnancy test" is like Dr. Mike's "chest compressions, chest compressions, chest compressions" 🤣🤣🤣
My husband doesn't watch much UA-cam. He knows Dr Mike as "the chest compressions guy" and MDJ as the "if your vagina is sick, take it to a doctor" lady. 🤣
Right lol
I'm a frog biologist and I use that info all the time, highschool students love it. when I was doing IVF during my research the frogs and I were getting the same hormones. The use of frogs for pregnancy testing has caused some huge ecological problems as lab frogs were moved around the world to labs moving disease etc.
Five years ago, after having sex with a person who could have theoretically gotten me pregnant and not having had a period in nearly two years due to expected early menopause. A couple weeks later, I started getting really nauseous in the mornings and my breasts became tender, so I did the reasonable thing and took a pregnancy test. And then a second one because the first one showed the faintest of pale pink lines. So did the second. I went and got a proper pregnancy test through my doctor's office, who confirmed that I was indeed post-menopausal and not pregnant.
i'd love to see you have a conversation/interview with Rachael the Try Guys Producer. She survived breast cancer and then had twins. I'd love for you to talk about how cancer influences fertility and breast feeding
I remember when my old history teacher was telling us about how doctors used to test for diabetes using urine iirc and when all of us looked disgusted, he went, "What? It's not like they're drinking it. They just taste and spit" I loved that teacher so much 🤣
Yeah, the urine of someone with diabetes will taste sweet because their body isn't producing enough insulin to deal with their blood sugar, so it gets expelled in the urine.
I mean yeah, and that taste makes perfect sense if you think about it - the body can dump excess sugar through urine. If sugar is chronically high, you develop extreme thirst, specifically so your body has more water to make more urine to dump more sugar. Because you're dumping sugar through your urine, it tastes sweet. Producing large amounts of sweet urine is literally where the name of the disease comes from - diabetes mellitus. The former being a Greek word meaning to siphon or pass through and the latter being a Latin word meaning sweet - what passes through you is sweet, it's very descriptive.
@@thegreatezazawalter if I recall correctly
@@rizahawkeyepierce1380 oh ok thank you!!
Uromancy would be pronounced "euro-man-see", following the same pronunciation pattern of necromancy. If I recall correctly, "mancy" is a Greek suffix that essentially means performing magic. The prefix "uro" or "necro" refer to the area of magic they're practicing.
Pee-magic?
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@@saschamayer4050 exactly! Cartomancy is card magic, like tarot cards (although I kinda wish card trick magicians were included) and I always get it mixed up with cartography (maps, map reading, and map making)
Correct!
Hi,
And greetings from Germany. That really long word at the beginning of the title of this paper is the name of a hormone. Most Germans would struggle with this word while reading out loud as well.
Anyway, I love history and this topic is amazing.
I would be interested in more historical women topics. How women handled period pains or how fertility problems were dealt with. STDs are also interesting in a historical context.
I actually started taking a pregnancy test monthly on the first day of my cycle because of this channel. My husband and I were not trying to have a baby but I ended up pregnant. I scheduled an appointment with my gyno and she was asking questions, when was your last period, were you trying to have a baby... then was super confused when I told her that I was not trying. I had to confess that I started testing because I was watching your reaction videos to "I didn't know I was pregnant" show.
Imagine someone doing the frog test being like
"Ok, it's been 13 hours, you're' not pregnant"
Goes about daily life
Has baby
"But you said I wasn't pregnant!"
"Oh, sorry madam, it turns out the frog we used was male, and therefore could not lay eggs."
Jokes aside, this was a very interesting and informative video, and I am glad that you enjoy looking this stuff up. THANKS MDJ!!
Kinda too bad Mike Rowe wasn't around before the 60's... The "Frog Sexer" job would've been hilarious to watch, I'm sure! ;o)
@@gnarthdarkanen7464 Love Mike Rowe lol :D
@@RedRoseSeptember22 🤪
I wonder how many days they needed to wait in-between test for the frog to have new eggs to produce. It seems like it wasn't something a frog could do daily, plus that would be a ton of shots. Ouch
@@nleem3361 It would take some research into what exact species they preferred to use and then... likely as not... The whole reason we'd know things like gestation period and how regularly they "CAN" mate and produce offspring would be from the research, development, and eventual practice of these pregnancy tests...
If you wanted a figure off the top of my head... Since frogs tend to have a specifically short mating season, like some 3 to 6 weeks out of a year, and nature tends to prioritize recovery before other processes, I'd hazard a test could be feasibly administered 2 or maybe 3 times yearly per frog... giving us about 3 to 4 months minimum for the frog to get enough nutrition and time to recover and start developing a fresh clutch of eggs for the next cycle...
BUT that's just an educated speculation, nothing particularly concrete. ;o)
I'm a gay man and I have no desire to father (or mother) a child. But I am addicted to your videos! You fight the good fight daily and I love watching it! Big, big fan here!
Holy heck! That’s just a trip to the ER right there! “Um… I couldn’t afford a pregnancy test so… I put an onion up there. It’s stuck.” 🤦🏻♀️
But think of the story that nurse would tell 😂
An onion maybe a first for some, but I guarantee ER nurses have seen lots of things stuck in there. The sight and the smells forever burned into their brains.
What? Gross
PSA: You can get a pregnancy test at the Dollar Tree.
My uncle was a walking pregnancy test. He just looked at someone and said 'you are pregnant with a girl' and she was. He did this several times and knew before my mum that she's pregnant with me. In fact he told her to do a test, because the OBGYN thought that she has cyst. And he, the same day told her 'no way, you're just early pregnant, do a test' and here I am. To this day we are wondering how on earth he did that.
My grandpa was the same. When my parents told my grandparents they were expecting my sister Grandma said Grandpa told her he suspected as much.
Once my niece asked me if I was pregnant when she was younger I'm not and wasn't I was just fat and still am I lost some weight since then though
My grandmother used to tell me stories about the rabbit dying for the tests if it was positive.
She is very much against the anti abortion thoughts because of how many of her friends died from coat hanger abortions.
Fun facts don't play cards against humanity with old people, because they'll have stories to go with the cards.
Wow!
Yess. That game is way more fun with older people!
This is as head-scratchingly fascinating as 15th century witch tests.
I only learned the euphemism "the rabbit died" about 12 years ago. I had a pet rabbit and she died while I was away at college. My mom told my best friend that "the rabbit died" and my friend asked, "Who's pregnant?" I was confused when mom told me the story. She had to explain what it meant. A couple of years after that, I watched the M*A*S*H episode where the head nurse, Major Houlihan, thought she was pregnant so the doctors used Radar's rabbit to test. So that they didn't unalive the bunny, they just spayed it. The test was negative.
That episode was the first thing that came to my mind as well! There is also the song "Sweet Emotion" by Aerosmith that mentions something about "you can't catch me cuz the rabbit done died" that also came to mind.
I don't get it
@@Comptonisa "The rabbit died" is a phrase used to indicate a woman is pregnant. It's related to the rabbit test for pregnancy. A rabbit is injected with a woman's urine. The rabbit is then dissected after a certain about of time to examine the rabbit's ovaries to see if they enlarged and matured. A common misconception is that the rabbit only died if the woman was pregnant.
That's animal cruelty if u ask me.
@@SwearMY I'm thinking spaying is better than dissection 💀
My grandma worked in a hospital lab when she was young and would tell us stories of injecting animals, mainly rabbits, with urine to perform pregnancy tests. Always blew my mind.
I’m laughing, I’m only to the onion one but when she was talking about increased blood flow, it reminded me of my doctors appointment I had when I got pregnant this time and my Nurse Practitioner had someone training with her and since they had just finished a Pap smear, my NP showed her student the place in my uterus that you could feel my pulse transvaginally. She said it could only be felt that way when someone was pregnant. It just made me think of it and it was awkward and I wanted to share 😅
Interesting. I wonder if the pulse could be felt during sex. That could be an interesting pregnancy test.
My first three babies were born at U***, a teaching hospital. I was actually ok with medical students, interns, “short coats” learning on me. Everyone begins learning somewhere and if I can be part of the process that builds good doctors, nurses, then yeah, easy call. As a Veteran I still am part of that. My VA Hospital is connected to the same University and Hospital. I do laugh though when I think about those first VA Hospital Appointments in the early ‘80s, as a female Veteran I was a bit of an anomaly. I went in unDXed abdominal pain one evening, My exam room had a nurse, a resident, suddenly 2 doctors, then 5, then I was moved to a larger exam room 🤣🤣🤣. I said to the nurse, what did he do, put out a bulletin? The VA never did DX that abdominal pain and it happened several more times. We have an idea now though. I had an ovarian cyst removed last November, it was larger than my uterus!! So freaking glad THAT ONE DIDN’T RUPTURE!!!
@@catinabox3048, she said the pulse was felt in her uterus, so no.
I recently watched Look who's talking. It was made in 1990 and it includes a home pregnancy test. I was born in 91 and was curious what the test my mom used was like. She didn't use one! She just knew, didn't want to spend $15 on a home test, so she just went to the doctor.
That was me. Didn't want to waste time and money on a test, so I just went to ky doctor. It was early in the pregnancy...I was like a week late. But I knew, and the test agreed.
I love "Look Who's Talking"! I, too, have often wondered about the pregnancy test Molly uses in the movie. It's definitely not the modern pee-on-a-stick kind. She uses a dropper of blue liquid of some sort?
@@summermazur3064 yeah. She has a whole glass vile set up.
I watched the original Degrassi Junior High and Degrassi High shows, and the Twin's (can't remember which one it was) having a 2 hour test! I will gladly take the 2 minute tests of today. Even dip strips.
I like having the intimacy/privacy of the couple being able to find out in the privacy of their home to have whatever reaction comes naturally.
I took one once, it involved putting some urine in a test tube and adding drops of a reactant swirling the mixture for a few seconds then placing it in a holder that came with the kit. There was a mirror set at an angle and an area that light shone through. If after two hours a circle was viewed on the area projected toward you were pregnant. The setup could not be moved or disturbed at all during the two hours or the “reading” or the test was not valid. There was a minimum time after last menstrual period (how late you were) for it to be valid. I think you had to be at least ten days late. If it was negative you were instructed to take another test 2-4 days later to allow hcg levels to increase, or menses to occur; or go to MD for blood test especially if you had pain in ovarian area.
I love so much that MDJ used the word "unalived". Honestly you are my hero.
OK, how did that test with the rat/rabbit turn into "the rabbit died" as the stand-in for a positive pregnancy test?
My wife had a really reliable pregnancy test. Car sickness.
After our experience with our first, I knew she was pregnant with our 2nd when she started complaining about car sickness again.
I’m not sure - because all the rabbits died whether you were pregnant or not 😆
LOL I remember an older doctor joking with me when he did a pregnancy test and said "Well, the rabbit didn't die." LMFAO.
@@betht275 Wow o.o
iirc it was sarcasm. I could be wrong though.
Apparently no one knows. I've looked into this before and I could never find anything. People just assumed that the pregnant urine killed the rabbit and that's how they knew the test was positive. I guess people didn't want to think about rabbits being cut open. (I understand, I don't want to think about that either)
Maybe "the rabbit died" is a very dramatic way to get around censors and not say the word "pregnant" on tv?
10:25 My mom said that every time she got pregnant, her vision improved. Being incredibly skeptical (she believes a lot of weird stuff), I didn’t believe her.
When I had my first kid, my optometrist kept checking my eyes and referring back to my chart. I finally asked her what was going on. She replied “You’re vision has improved! That doesn’t make sense.” I laughed and told her about my mom. Sure enough, when second kiddo came along… yet another improvement. My eyes haven’t changed since I had my first kid 15 years ago except to get better. She joked that if I had another 10 kids, I’d have perfect vision. Nope. HARD PASS!
My husband researches eyes and he told me that vision changes are really common during/after pregnancy. Hormones are so much more influential than many of us realize. Unfortunately my vision got worse!
Hahah mine got soooo much worse with both pregnancy’s. It was one of the signs I knew I was pregnant.
That’s interesting! I’ve always heard pregnancy can worsen vision, hadn’t heard of it getting better. Cool side effect!
The things humans come up with for pregnancy is hilarious
I am so grateful for pregnancy tests. I had been tracking my ovulation and swore I already ovulated and missed my fertile window. So, I continued my life like I was good for the rest of the month and only had unprotected sex once. A week before my missed period my boobs hurt but that wasn't unusual. Something told me to take a test even though I had no symptoms (and wouldn't for well over a month). Low and behold I was pregnant. I was able to stop drinking and vaping and take my prenatal vitamins again. This baby is very wanted and planned, she was just made in a gap month. Tomorrow I'll be 35 weeks 😊
Aww congratulations Mandy!!! Do you have name picked out yet for your little angel?
@@RedRoseSeptember22 yes, but I'm not sharing it yet. Literally just changed my mind on it last week haha
what is a gap month?
Congratulations!
Congrats!
Imagine worrying that you’re pregnant and having to wait for plants to grow
I just started gardening this year and you'd be surprised how fast a bunch of seeds germinate!
This reminds me of when i was a teenager and we found a baby bunny on our front porch. We called the local wild animal rescue but they couldn't do anything and the bunny died. My mom was talking to my aunt and told her "the bunny died" and my aunt says "omg who's pregnant!??". Took my mom awhile to stop laughing so she could explain to me the connection between a rabbit dying and possible teenage pregnancy 😂
im curious what is the connection? or is it just about the rodent ovary thing (I am assuming not since you're specifying teen pregnancy)?
@@Aufeii "The rabbit died" is a phrase used to indicate a woman is pregnant. It's related to the rabbit test for pregnancy. A rabbit is injected with a woman's urine. The rabbit is then dissected after a certain about of time to examine the rabbit's ovaries to see if they enlarged and matured. A common misconception is that the rabbit only died if the woman was pregnant.
"The vagina is not a vegetable garden" put that on a t-shirt
I was named after a friend of my mother's who worked in a lab. I was born in 1964.
Once I was older, my mother explained that Bridget did pregnancy testing using frogs!
I was today years old when I found out how Bridget did this! I'd always wondered...
I was today years old when I desperately began wishing my mom was still here so I could ask if she got the frog test in 1967 when I was conceived! 😀
Mad props to Chadwick for giving credit to his predecessor.
In China, people just used a pulse to detect pregnancy. You have to have training and experience in TCM to be able to do so accurately though, so it's not something people can just do at home. I think you also have to be several months along for the results to be accurate, which kinda defeats the purpose of having a pregnancy test to begin with.
Funny thing is I always knew I am pregnant before my period was expected because my pulse was high, around 90-100bpm. Every time!
I just wanted to comment how kind it was to compliment a thesis paper, so wholesome ❤️!
I think it's also worth mentioning that if you take a pregnancy test and it comes out positive, but there's no possible way you could be pregnant (for example, I haven't had sex in like 5 years) than it could actually be an indication of cancer. I've also heard that it works to detect testicular cancer.
Or it means you ate poppy seeds. Myth busters actually did that once, the guys ate poppy seeds and peed on a pregnancy test and it came back positive. *All* of them were cis, so very clearly that wasn’t possible. Not sure if that’s something that happens with modern pee sticks or not, as it’s been a long while since that episode, but still…
At least… I’m pretty sure that was the episode… it was quite a long time ago…
The early home pregnancy tests were in use when I was having kids (early to mid-1980s). They felt like I was doing a science experiment. Put so many drops of first-morning urine into a small test tube, and place it on a stand that had a mirror under it. I think I had to wait a couple of hours and if a dark brown ring formed in the bottom of the test tube, it was positive.
The pictures of the test my parents used to find out they were expecting my brother in 1987 blow my mind. It was like a chemistry set!
Ah yes I took that kind of test late 87 to find out I was pregnant with my son. It took over an hour to get the results lol.
MDJ, I LOVE your videos. However, as a woman of *a certain age,* I would really appreciate more content regarding menopause. And endometriosis, and adenomyosis, and how they are diagnosed and treated. Thank you for all you do.
I have heard of tasting urine to diagnose what is now known as diabetes, but I have never heard of it in any other contexts.
I have heard of that too, for diabetes.
I'm fangirling!!! I've been curious about your take on the grain test for so long, and today is the day! Thank you!
I'm a clinical lab scientist who is working on specializing in clinical chemistry. This was a wild watch - thank you!
What I remember from the video..
Prego Pee Makes Plants GROW 🌱
So I was 2 days late last week and thought of your advice. Went and bought a test came home and took it and it was negative. Like five minutes later my period came. Thanks universe for scaring me and then laughing about it.
That has literally happened to me twice in the last year.
I don’t know how many times I’ve taken a test and started my period hours or a day after, this was in the old days when I used to have sex 😅best to get ahead of things and know what’s what though.
Could you make a video about how to deal with invasive exams or intimate exams in general for people who have PTSD? I know how important these types of tests are but can't get over the anxiety it causes, I love you and your videos and would love to hear your suggestions for these issues
By the way, ammonia is a fertilizer. Also, a homonym/spelling oops (okay, I admit I’m a compulsive proofreader), it’s “bear” in this case, not “bare.”
Yes, but too much ammonia kills the plant.
and human urine doesn't really contain ammonia. It's mostly uric acid, urea and ammonium salts. If you let urine ferment, then you do get ammonia.
This really needs a part two! How did we get from frogs to pee sticks? How long have pee sticks been around for? How reliable are they? Please give us the history leading up to 1978 and through any interesting modern developments.
This reminds me of that senator who thought you could swallow a pill sized camera to see the baby in the womb.
Are you serious?! 😂😂😂 When was that?
OMG, the thought of everything I eat and drink going through my uterus is kinda revolting.
That's news to me. He really thought that!
Ummmm...personally, I get offended when the ER insists on a pregnancy test before an xray, and charge me for it, when I am post hysterectomy and bilateral oomphorectomy. And am abstinent. Pretty sure I am NOT pregnant.
That is ridiculous. There is no medical basis for that charge. I would fight it.
Yeah but women are incubators so we have to pay extra charges 🙃 We're just too stupid to know better 🙃🙃🙃
Agreed ... fight those charges, insist they actually read your chart and take a verbal medical history to compare. That's bananas...
Is there a possibilty to go buy a test and take it there?
Would that be cheaper?
Tl:dr, I totally get where you're coming from, but I understand their reasoning as well.
The ER probably doesn't have access to your medical record right when you get there, and some of the treatments they use could be dangerous if used on someone who's pregnant. I'm sure that you yourself are a reliable source of information, but they can't tell someone has had a hysterectomy by looking at them, and I'm also sure they get patients all the time who swear they couldn't possibly be pregnant and turn out to be pregnant after all, so their policy is to test every time. I'm in a similar situation - my husband had a vasectomy years ago, and I'm on my third hormonal IUD, but they check anytime I need imagining done, which has been a lot recently, as I've ended up in the ER twice in the last 7 months. I've had an MRI, three CT scans, and an EEG within a four month period. (A seizure, my first and hopefully only, and a large kidney stone.)
I've also been one of the ones who was sure they weren't pregnant, though at a doctor's office, not the ER. After all, I was there because I was having an extra hard period which had lasted ~2 weeks. Nope, turns out that I was about 5 weeks pregnant and my oldest originally had a twin that wasn't viable and I was having a partial miscarriage. My son's totally fine, and will finish his first year of university next week, but the hours between getting that news and having that first ultrasound was horrible.
This is so interesting! I can't imagine how ancient (or not so) people even game up with these outrageous tests!
This is awesome!!
I LOVE the history of Medicine!!
Next, could you please do historical gynaecology tools and instruments??? :)
OK, I'm off to read Claire McEwen Duncan's thesis :D
Sorry, have to correct: Pah-Pie-Rus. Otherwise, such fascinating history! So glad we have the easy modern tests.
Oh, thank you! I was going to post that if no one else did. :)
I completely agree with thinking eyes are gross. I’m in nursing school right now, and I don’t think anything has made my skin crawl more than listening to descriptions of eye injuries (except maybe learning about 3rd and 4th degree burns). Thank goodness for specialist.
“Please don’t put onions in the vagina”
Fun fact. Medieval monks tested pregnancy using frogs. They would pour urine onto the frog, and if the frog changed colors, then the woman was pregnant. It was apparently pretty accurate and worked similar to how the pregnancy test strips of today work. Just with a frog instead. I’m amazed about how innovative people were in testing pregnancy and the capacity of frogs to test for pregnancy.
My great-grandma found out she was pregnant with my grandpa through the inject urine into a frog test. But she was poor so she caught her own frog. My grandma did pretty much the same thing when finding out she was pregnant with my dad and two of his siblings. At home tests were already a thing when the other three children were born.
Chinese medicine also had an interesting way, checking pulses. It's proven very unreliable, but it's featured a lot in Qing Dynasty dramas such as Ruyi's Royal love and YangXi Palace.
It works but requires a skilled doctor and you need to be several months pregnant at least.
After watching like 3 Chinese dramas I started to think they used checking pulses for any possible illnesses/ alignments. And that there was no way for it t be very reliable. :D
@@catinabox3048 a Dr in china asked Drs of Chinese medicine to prove it with 100% accuracy, none could.
Thank you for always being exclusive. You tend to work that in, even just chosing your wording. Good for you and ty again.
I mean we kinda use “uromancy/urine wheels” as a initial diagnosis today. The first step in determining a UTI is often an examination of the appearance of urine, including color, consistency (visible skin cells, blood globs, white clumps, etc) and cloudiness. I’ not sure if pregnancy urine is at all distinguishable but even today in medicine we can use the smell (sweet could mean diabetic, UTI’s can have a scent to it, etc).
My understanding is that married ladies of the 50s,60s, ish would just wait and assume if they were regular and missed a couple of periods. The demand for pregnancy testing was much lower than today.
Do you think maybe those ancient urine drinkers could actually taste the hormone inside pregnant urine? People might think "No way they could taste the difference" but it's not like we know from experience. Maybe it does taste different. 🤣
Slang for "are you pregnant?" used to include "did the rabbit die?" referencing one of these tests. I was born in the 50s and this was pretty commonly known slang. Glad those days are gone.
I had actually been wondering about how pregnancy tests came about, you read my mind! 😂
I didn't get very far into my personal research of them so this video is just what I was needing, thanks!
Not only was the onion test ineffective, the onion never tasted the same.
You had me at the “take a pregnancy test” montage lol I guess I’ll go take a pregnancy test
I remember back in my youth (I’m 71 now) that people who’d found out they were pregnant would say, “The rabbit died.”
I came into my doctor on my period, they did a pregnancy test. I was like yeah okay. I guess it could not be my period maybe
Well, it's good to know which animals to leave out when somebody at an ice breaker asks you "what animal would you have wanted to be?"
Absolutely fascinating. I really enjoyed this.
How on earth did you maintain such a straight face and professional demeanor? I giggled through the majority of it.
My editor is magic 😆
My wife kept EPT in business when we went though infertility…OMH so many pregnancy tests
I love how you grade how safe a procedure is in this video as a part of your rating.
So the ancient pregnancy test by peeing on grain made me check something out, when you mentioned hormones might be part of it.
There is a rooting hormone thats commonly used to make cuttings root faster. This powder often has indole-3-acetic acid in it. Which seems to be some sort of leftover from serotonin, and melantonin.
With both we know it lightens your mood, makes you feel happier.
So usually pregnant women are discribed as happier, brighter facial expression. People always claim they can tell if a woman is pregnant by the way she smiles.
So maybe a pregnant women produces more serotonin and/or melantonin and thus produces more indole-3-acetic acid. So when she pees on the grain she has more of the "rooting" hormone in her urine.
It might actually make sense on a scientific level.
So I had to follow up this great lead, and found a paper from 2018, “The dynamic serotonin system of the maternal brain.” Apparently pregnant women in the 2nd trimester and beyond have more serotonin metabolites (breakdown products) in their cerebrospinal fluid. It would make sense for lots of serotonin metabolites to be in their urine too. I think you’ve solved this mystery!
What a ride !! Thanks for the very well presented and fascinating information !
"Piss prophets" sounds what Brits would call drunk men in pubs that are very chatty but say silly things 😹
Lol!! I immediately reverted to being a kid and giggled through that part!
Hi! Would you be able to make a video about menopause including hormonal replacement therapy and/or the combined pill as an alternative and their differences please?
Love your videos btw very educative :)
I like how James Read Chadwick gave Etienne Joseph Jacquemin credit for his idea and Chadwick was the one who became well-known for it. How many times in history that someone profited from an idea/ invention that wasn't theirs?
But Chadwick did tell everyone that it was from Jacquemin. There are those that do take full credit for other's ideas.
@@westzed23 That's what I meant. I like that Chadwick gave credit to Jacquemin.
This is definitely one of my favorite videos! I love how excited you get when your talking about this stuff!! You’d be such a great professor! You’re students would actually go to class because of how fun and entertaining you are! Much love from back home in the states! 💗💗💗
If you find yourself in London, the wellcome groups medical museum is fascinating. Totally worth a visit.
That sounds like a very interesting museum. I'll put it on my list to go to if/when I get to London.
Can you imagine going to your dr “I think I’m pregnant “
Dr “oh ok here’s an onion “
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When my mom was pregnant with me (forth child), she showed the doctor her NFP / temperature charts and he told her, she couldn’t be pregnant. However, my mom insisted on him testing her and here I am.
She never took a test, she just knew from her symptoms and went to the doctor, because paying for a test herself was to expensive.
My mom knew she was pregnant with me, I'm a third child ...not her first rodeo. But ... they didn't believe her because she was 39. Constant nope nope nope. Even refused to test her formally, then she got a new doctor. Here I am. Lol.
@@lesliesteele3926 Lol 😂
I was so excited to see some art history brought up in the video. I used to teach medical humanities to nurses and pre-med students. I used these types of artworks to show how medicine has changed over time and through art. I have a deep love for medieval anatomy texts!
The little person inside the vial is called a homunculus.
I wish my grandma was still alive so I could ask her about her experiences with testing for pregnancy in the 50s and 60s. Five kids, I know she had some stories.
My husband's grandma told me that back in the early 60s the doctor refused to see you to diagnose pregnancy until you'd missed at least 3 periods 😵💫
@@whitneymichael5584 ugh, wow. Sounds like something men would do. 🙄
Love a MDJ video, always interesting and educational- the best kind of video!
BRB, feel weird urge to take a pregnancy test even though I'm not having sex with anyone.