Norinyl 1/80 Oral Contraceptive
date: label: date made
content: ca 1978
name: label: maker
content: Syntex Inc.
label: maker
content: Syntex
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 Syntex Corporation of Humacoa, Puerto Rico, manufactured this Norinyl 1/80 brand oral contraceptive around 1978. The medication was packaged in a cardboard sleeve decorated with images of flowers and a bird. The medicine was dispensed in Syntex’s trademarked Memorette container that features a female bust in profile embossed on the lid. Inside the container is a 21-pill blister pack that organizes the monthly regimen into three rows of 7 pills that are numbered 1–21.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Puerto Rico: Humacao, Humacao
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 Abell and Lester D. Johnson, Jr., M.D.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0760.039
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0760.039
label: accession number
content: 1981.0760
objectType: label: Object Name
content: contraceptive, oral
label: Object Name
content: oral contraceptive
label: Other Terms
content: contraceptive, oral; Contraceptives; Patent Medicines; Drugs; Non-Liquid
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: norethindrone, 1 mg (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: mestranol, 0.08 mg (drug active ingredients)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11.8 cm x 9.3 cm x 2 cm; 4 5/8 in x 3 11/16 in x 13/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/8 in x 5 3/8 in x 3 7/8 in; 2.2225 cm x 13.6525 cm x 9.8425 cm