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 in a blister pack that fits into a pink plastic DialPak dispenser. A foil pack with one blister pack refill ring is included.The center dial in the Dialpak was set by the user to the first day of the pill cycle before inserting the blister pack refill. Each subsequent pill was 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: 2000.0090.14
label: accession number
content: 2000.0090
label: catalog number
content: 2000.0090.14
objectType: label: Object Name
content: contraceptive, oral
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: norgestimate, 0.250 mg (drug (blue tablet) active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: ethinyl estradiol, 0.035 mg (drug (blue tablet) active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (compact material)
label: Physical Description
content: foil (blister pack material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (inserts material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (package material)
label: Measurements
content: dispenser refill: 12 cm x 8 cm x 1 cm; 4 3/4 in x 3 1/8 in x 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 3 1/4 in x 4 3/4 in; 1.5875 cm x 8.255 cm x 12.065 cm