SIR PERCIVAL POTT AND HIS MEMORABLE CONTRIBUTION TO THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER'S CANCER AND THE EPIDEMIC OF TUBERCULOSIS

was found to cause grain to sprout 70% of the time, but the sex could not be determined. Later, Hippocrates suggested that to determine a pregnancy, a woman could drink a honey and water mixture before sleep. If abdominal distension and cramps ensued, this would indicate a pregnancy. During the middle ages, uroscopy claimed to diagnose many disorders. In a 1552 text, pregnancy urine was described as a “clear, pale, lemon color leaning toward off-white”. It was not until the twentieth century that the science behind the urine pregnancy test was