Hall-Stone Ring
date: label: date made
content: early-mid 1960s
notes: label: Description
content: Ring-shaped intrauterine device (IUD) consisting of a coiled spring of stainless steel. The Hall-Stone ring IUD, like the Grafenburg ring popular in the 1920s-1930s, required dilating the cervix to insert the device. Developed by Herbert H. Hall and Martin L. Stone (Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, New York Medical College). Made by Goshen Instrument Corporation of Goshen, New York.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Goshen
topic: label: Subject
content: Women's Health
label: Subject
content: Birth Control/Contraception
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Margaret Sanger Center
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0531.077
label: accession number
content: 1982.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0531.077
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Hall-Stone Ring Iud?
label: Object Name
content: contraceptive, intrauterine device
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall, envelope: 2 3/4 in x 1 3/8 in; 6.985 cm x 3.4925 cm