In ancient Egypt, a pregnancy test had already been devised and was even said to help women of the time to know the sex of the baby. This pregnancy test required a woman to urinate on wheat and barley seeds. If there was germination, the woman would be pregnant. In that case, if the wheat germinated, she would expect a girl, and if the barley germinated, a boy.
Another curious pregnancy test was used in ancient Greece, but is not recommended today. The woman had to insert an onion into her vagina for one night. The next morning, if her breath gave off the smell of onion, she was said not to be pregnant.
Until the advent of more modern tests, the frog pregnancy test was also widely used. To perform the test, urine was injected into a frog. If the woman was pregnant, the frog would spawn within a few hours.
