Talk:Rabbit test

The Medical Test
The body of the article includes an interesting history of the test -- I think most readers will be curious why a pregnancy test was called a "rabbit test" and why the rabbit was said to have died, and this article explains those things well. However, I feel it ends too soon. The history of the rabbit test ends with the development of a replacement test using frogs. I have no medical training, but I'm pretty sure pregnancy tests these days don't use frogs or any animals at all. Shouldn't there be a brief paragraph describing the development of the non-biological assay? I think any discussion of animal cruelty would be outside the bounds of this article, but it would be interesting to know when and how it became no longer necessary to use rabbits, mice or frogs to determine human pregnancy. Rangergordon (talk) 23:39, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Movie
should mention be made of the movie that went by the name Rabbit Test? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jafafa Hots (talk • contribs)

The movie "The Rabbit Test" has its own page. Rangergordon (talk) 23:39, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

The television show History's Mysteries on Lincoln includes a letter uses the phrase the rabbit died. Its either an error in the show, or the use of a rabbit is much older than 1929/30.98.207.217.111 (talk) 20:41, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

There is some general information regarding development of the "Rabbit Test" that might improve this article
It is widely reported that Maurice Harold Friedman, with Maxwell Edward Lapham, were the developers of the rabbit test, at the University of Pennsylvania in 1929 or during the 1930s. Previous tests may not have used rabbits. If they developed the test, it might improve the article to include them. See, for example: http://ajplegacy.physiology.org/content/89/2/438.extract and http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/10/obituaries/dr-maurice-friedman-87-dies-created-rabbit-pregnancy-test.html and http://mw2.m-w.com/medical/friedman

It may be that Bernhard Zondek and Selmar Aschheim developed the mouse test. 14Diesel (talk) 15:20, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

Merger proposal
I propose merging Aschheim-Zondek test with this article, as they cover the same subject. --88.152.194.101 (talk) 14:08, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Merged. ENeville (talk) 19:18, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

Timeline
When did they stop using animals in pregnancy tests? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.80.152.205 (talk) 16:46, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

"Rabbit Test" References in Popular Culture
I know of at least one, a lyric from the 1970's rock band "Aerosmith", which goes something like "You can't catch me 'cause the rabbit done died Yes it did." Wondering how many more there may be, and if they are worth including in the Article.Tym Whittier (talk) 04:09, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

Brouha-Hinglais-Simonnet reaction
I'm currently reading a journal article and it states the following: "Together with two French specialists in endocrinology, Brouha developed the so-called 'Brouha-Hinglais-Simon-net reaction', better known as the 'rabbit test', in 1931 to test pregnancy." At the time, Brouha was working at the University of Liège. That all sounds very similar to what is described in this article, just with different players and on a different continent. That's a bit strange, isn't it?  Schwede 66  01:32, 22 August 2021 (UTC)