Oviprem Oral Contraceptives
name: label: maker
content: Syntex
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: Syntex Incorporated produced this Oviprem 35 brand oral during the 1960s and 1970s. Oviprem 35 was manufactured in Mexico, and the instructions on the cardboard packaging are in Spanish. The silver blister pack has 21 pills laid out in an S pattern. "Para uso exlusivo del Sector Salud" is printed on the box; this product was for the exclusive use of the public health sector.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Mexico
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: Dr. Linda S. Potter
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0360.08
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0360.08
label: accession number
content: 1997.0360
objectType: label: Object Name
content: contraceptive, oral
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: etinilestradiol, .035 mg (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: noretisterona, 0.400 mg (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: foil (blister pack material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (blister pack material)
label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (box material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8.5 cm x 7.5 cm x 1.8 cm; 3 11/32 in x 2 15/16 in x 23/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/4 in x 3 in x 1/2 in; 8.255 cm x 7.62 cm x 1.27 cm