Chinese Compound Norgestrel Oral Contraceptives (Beijing Pharmaceutical Factory)
date: label: date made
content: 1988
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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.
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content: The Beijing Pharmaceutical Factory in Beijing, China, produced these oral contraceptive pills around 1988. The 22 blue pills are in a silver blister pack. Manufacturers that used 22 pills did so because they thought that it was easier to remember to take the first pill next week on the same day as your last pill the week before. These pills include a comprehensive pamphlet detailing directions for use.
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content: Pamphlet Text, translated by Huikai Wang
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content: (registered trademark) Polypharmacy norgestrel long-effective contraceptive tablet
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content: (compound 18 methyl acting oral contraceptive tablets)
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content: Every tablet is covered by pink sugar-coating. Every one includes 1.2 milligram norgestrel, and, 3 milligram norethisterone.
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content: Function and Purpose: This is a long-effective oral contraceptive agent for female, and has the main function of ovulation inhibit. It has advantage with reliable, safe and easy taking. It’s appropriate for those cohabitation couples, and, it doesn’t need to be taken more than once a month.
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content: Usage and dosage:
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content: 1. When you are in the first time using this medicine, please remember to take the first one tablet on the fifth day and the second one on the twenty-fifth day after your first menstrual cramps. Later, you can only take one tablet every month on the same day as the second time.
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content: 2. When you are planning to change your short-effective contraceptives to this long-effective one, please take one long-effective contraceptive tablet right after the day when the 22 long-effective contraceptives have been finished. And then, you can take the long-effective once a month on the same day when you begin you long-effective contraceptive taking.
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content: Side-effects:
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content: 1. A few of person who are taking this medicine in the beginning periods will have a slightly reaction similar to pregnancy such as dizziness, nausea, drowsy and vomit ten to twelve hours after medicine taking. In order to remit these uncomfortable feelings, commonly take tablet after lunch. If you are a night worker, take it after supper. You can also take some pills of contraceptive reaction inhibition one pill a time, one or two times a day, for one to two days in the first four periods when you begin to take this medicine.
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content: 2. Some will meet leucorrhea increasing in the first two or three periods, please take the remedy to your own case.
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content: Contraindications: It’s strictly forbidden for those patients who are suffering from acute and chronic hepatitis, nephritis, hypertension, glycuresis, neoplasm, serious varicosity, medical history of thrombus. Women who are in lactation are forbidden for this medicine.
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content: Notes:
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content: 1. Please take this medicine under your doctor’s suggestion.
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content: 2. It’s normal that your menstruation come ten or fifteen days later right after you take this medicine at the first time. It’s not strange also that your first two menstruation periods have been a little shorten after taking this medicine at the first time. It is going to be normal in your third menstruation period.
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content: 3. There is no big influence for your menstruation. Some will find their mild menses occurred little by little based on the time passing by. If you are in menostasis, please contact your doctor.
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content: 4. If you get pregnancy in the period you are taking this medicine, please make termination of your pregnancy as soon as possible.
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content: 5. If contraception is still necessary for you after stop taking this medicine, other contraception methods should be taken no matter your menses has been recovered or not.
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content: 6. Take care of the tablets in case of mistaking.
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content: 7. Take your regular health checks always. Please stop using this medicine if only any unusual happened.
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content: 8. Willing to get pregnancy should be arranged half years later after stopping using this medicine.
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content: 9. The due time for taking this medicine would not be extended to three to five years.
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content: Storage: Closed, and, placed in a dark and cool place.
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content: Beijing Pharmaceutical Factory
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: China: Beijing Shi, Beijing
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: Gift of Kiehl's Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0196.215
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0196.215
label: accession number
content: 1989.0196
objectType: label: Object Name
content: oral contraceptives
label: Object Name
content: contraceptive, oral
label: Other Terms
content: oral contraceptives; Pharmaceutical; Pills
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: foil (blister pack material)
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content: plastic (blister pack material)
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content: paper (leaflet material)
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content: norgestrel, 1.2 mg (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: norethisterone, 3 mg (drug active ingredients)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 cm x 3.6 cm x .4 cm; 4 5/16 in x 1 7/16 in x 3/16 in
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content: overall, pill pack: 1 3/8 in x 4 1/4 in x 1/8 in; 3.4925 cm x 10.795 cm x .3175 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall, instruction sheet: 6 1/2 in x 4 3/4 in; 16.51 cm x 12.065 cm