They used to be a lot more complicated.
I only barely remember now, but when I qualified as a pharmacist, there weren't cheap mass-produced pregnancy tests.
The lady in question would have to bring in a urine sample, then you'd have to mix it with two different reagents in sequence on a glass surface, and then try to work out how fluorescent it was it determine the result of the test. Then write the result on a piece of paper and give it to her in an envelope, keeping your tone of voice entirely neutral (because you can never assume that you know which result they want, and even implied congratulations/commiserations might be horribly misplaced).
And that was only in 1998. You young people don't know if you were going to have been born.
(, Tue 8 Sep 2020, 22:22, Reply)