Ortho Tri-Cyclen 28 Oral Contraceptive
date: label: date made
content: ca 1996
name: label: maker
content: Ortho Pharmaceutical Corporation
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: The popularity of “the Pill” created a new market for pharmaceutical companies. For the first time, healthy women would be taking medication for an extended period of time. Pill manufacturers developed unique packaging in order to distinguish their product from those of their competitors and build brand loyalty. Packaging design often incorporated a “memory aid” to assist women in tracking their daily pill regimen, as well as styled cases to allow pills to be discreetly carried in bags and purses. The National Museum of American History’s Division of Medicine and Science’s collection of oral contraceptives illustrates some of the changes that the packaging and marketing of the Pill underwent from its inception in 1960 to the present.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The Ortho Pharmaceutical Corporation of Raritan, New Jersey, produced this Ortho-Tri-Cyclen 28 oral contraceptive around 1996. The pills are in a ring-shaped blister pack that fits into a blue and white plastic compact. The inside lid of the compact had a space for a prescription label and notes the patent number for the compact, 4,165,708. A black arrow in the center points to the days of the week around the wheel. This allowed the user to set the day of her first pill and track her daily use from there. This prescription contains 28 pills: 7 green pills, 14 blue pills, and 7 white pills. The package includes directions for use.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Birth Control/Contraception
label: Subject
content: Women's Health
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Birth Control
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical Company, Inc
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2000.0090.12
label: accession number
content: 2000.0090
label: catalog number
content: 2000.0090.12
objectType: label: Object Name
content: contraceptive, oral
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: norgestimate, 0.180 mg (drug (white tablet) active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: norgestimate, 0.215 mg (drug (light blue tablet) active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: norgestimate, 0.250 mg (drug (blue tablet) active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: ethinyl estradiol, 0.035 mg (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (packaging material)
label: Physical Description
content: foil (packaging material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (insert material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9.3 cm x 8.6 cm x 1.3 cm; 3 11/16 in x 3 3/8 in x 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 3 3/8 in x 3 5/8 in; 1.27 cm x 8.5725 cm x 9.2075 cm