Lanteen Flat Spring Diaphragm
date: label: date made
content: 1950s
name: label: maker
content: Esta Medical Laboratories, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Pink cardboard box containing one flat spring diaphragm in a light green plastic case, one blue tube Lanteen Jelly, one plastic key for rolling tube, one plastic jelly applicator, and one paper instruction booklet. Net Weight of Jelly 1 Ounce (28 Gm.) Printed on cover of box: "Caution: Federal law restricts this device to sale by or on order of a physician."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
label: associated place
content: United States: Louisiana, Saint Martinville
topic: label: Subject
content: Women's Health
label: Subject
content: Birth Control/Contraception
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The Fournet Drugstore Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0475.137
label: accession number
content: 1985.0475
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0475.137
objectType: label: Object Name
content: contraceptive, diaphragm
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: Ricinoleic Acid 0.50%; Hexylresorcinol 0.10%; Chlorothymol 0.0077%; Sodium Benzoate and Glycerin in a Tragacanth Base (lanteen jelly active ingredeints)
label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (box material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (case for diaphragm material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (applicator material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (booklet material)
label: Physical Description
content: aluminum (?) (tube, jelly material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (key material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 cm x 13 cm x 2.7 cm; 6 11/16 in x 5 1/8 in x 1 1/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/4 in x 6 7/8 in x 1 in; 13.335 cm x 17.4625 cm x 2.54 cm