Ortho Diaphragm
name: label: maker
content: Ortho Pharmaceutical Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: Vaginal diaphragm with an “ORTHO / ??” inscription in a circular white plastic case. Ortho Pharmaceutical was formed in 1931 as a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, to produce Ortho-Gynol, the first prescription spermicidal contraceptive jelly. It introduced the coil-spring diaphragm in the 1940s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Raritan
topic: label: Subject
content: Birth Control/Contraception
label: Subject
content: Women's Health
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. Robert J. Locurto
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0160.06
label: accession number
content: 1980.0160
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0160.06
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Diaphragm
label: Object Name
content: contraceptive, diaphragm
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 4 in; x .9525 cm x 10.16 cm