Desogen Remember Me Oral Contraceptive Compliance Kit
date: label: date made
content: 1993
name: label: maker
content: Organon Inc.
label: maker
content: N.V. Organon
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: Organon International of Oss, Holland, produced this Desogen Remember Me Compliance Kit around 1993. The kit contains a package of contraceptives, a toothbrush, and a small bar of soap. There is a “Remember Me” sticker meant to be affixed to the bathroom mirror. The box bears the slogan “Brush your teeth, wash your face, take your pill . . . once a day. Everyday. At the Same Time.” This professional sample of Desogen is still in its foil wrapper, which contained a tablet dispenser with 21 white hormonal tablets and 7 inert green tablets. The 28-pill monthly dosage is arranged in four weekly rows of seven pills in the blister pack and came with a slipcover.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Netherlands: North Brabant, Oss
label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Orange
topic: label: Subject
content: Birth Control/Contraception
label: Subject
content: Women's Health
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
label: See more items in
content: Health & Medicine
label: See more items in
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: 2004.0118.12
label: accession number
content: 2004.0118
label: catalog number
content: 2004.0118.12
objectType: label: Object Name
content: contraceptive, oral
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: desogestrel, 0.15 mg (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: ethinyl estradiol, 0.03 mg (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (box, soap box material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (toothbrush material)
label: Physical Description
content: foil (pill package material)
label: Physical Description
content: vinyl (slip cover material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 21 cm x 15 cm x 3.4 cm; 8 1/4 in x 5 7/8 in x 1 5/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 5/8 in x 5 1/8 in x 8 3/8 in; 4.1275 cm x 13.0175 cm x 21.2725 cm