Jenest-28 Oral Contraceptives
date: label: date made
content: ca 1995
name: label: maker
content: Organon Inc.
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 a discreetly designed case for easy carrying 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 Corp. produced this Jenest-28 brand oral contraceptive for Organon Inc. of West Orange, New Jersey, around 1995. The foil wrapper contains a physician’s sample of Jenest-28, consisting of 21 hormonal tablets and seven inert green tablets. The pills were dispensed in a “cyclic tablet dispenser.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, West Orange
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: Gift of Gladys Johnson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2004.0118.03
label: accession number
content: 2004.0118
label: catalog number
content: 2004.0118.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: contraceptive, oral
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: norethindrone, 0.5 mg (drug (white tablet) active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: norethindrone, 1 mg (drug (peach tablet) active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: ethinyl estradiol, 0.035 mg (drug (white and peach tablet) active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (sealed package material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12.5 cm x 7.25 cm x 1.5 cm; 4 15/16 in x 2 7/8 in x 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/4 in x 3 1/8 in x 5 in; 1.905 cm x 7.9375 cm x 12.7 cm