Pregnancy Test Rabbit Died
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Why did they say ‘the rabbit died’?
I have noticed on older t.v. shows (like from the 60′s & 70′s) or movies that people said ‘the rabbit died’ when they have become pregnant. What does that mean? Where did this originate? Did they do Pregnancy Testing with a real rabbit in some way?
I also think this was the significance of Glenn Close boiling the rabbit in ‘Fatal Attraction’
Never heard of this but here you go….
“Around 1927 it was discovered that if you injected the urine of a pregnant woman into a rabbit, there would be corpora hemorrhagica in the ovaries of the rabbit. These bulging masses on the ovaries could not be seen with out killing the rabbit to inspect the ovaries, so invariably, every rabbit died, even if the woman wasn’t pregnant. The phrase, “The rabbit died,” came to be a euphemism for a positive pregnancy test after the late 1920 and early 1930s.”
Girlfriends Season 5 Episode 2 (The Rabbit Died)
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