Ortho Tri-Cyclen 28 Oral Contraceptive
date: label: date made
content: ca 1999
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 pill oral contraceptive around 1999. The pills are contained in a pink plastic DialPak compact container. The object consists of the DialPak, a packaged refill of a 28 pill monthly dose of Ortho Tri-Cyclen, and pamphlets containing user instructions. The DialPak was made to accommodate refills, one of which is shown in its foil pack. The center dial would be set to a day of the week, the refill would be inserted into the DialPak with the first pill matching the day of the week, and each subsequent pill would be dispensed on the correct day through the bottom of the DialPak.
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
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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: 2000.0090.13
label: accession number
content: 2000.0090
label: catalog number
content: 2000.0090.13
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 (compact material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (blister pack material)
label: Physical Description
content: foil (blister pack material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (package material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (inserts material)
label: Measurements
content: dispenser refill: 12.8 cm x 8 cm x 1 cm; 5 1/16 in x 3 1/8 in x 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/8 in x 3 in x 4 3/4 in; 2.2225 cm x 7.62 cm x 12.065 cm