Quingestanol Oral Contraceptive
date: label: date made
content: ca 1972
name: label: maker
content: Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical Company
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 Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical Company of Morris Plains, New Jersey, produced this oral contraceptive around 1972. The dispenser contains 35 pills of .3-milligrams of Quingestanol Acetate, a progestogen. The front of the dispenser is unlabeled. A slit displays the day of the week and a tab can be lifted to extract the daily pill. The back bears directions and information for the user.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Morris Plains
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 Margaret Sanger Center
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0531.038
label: accession number
content: 1982.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0531.038
objectType: label: Object Name
content: contraceptive, oral
label: Other Terms
content: Contraceptives; Patent Medicines; Drugs; Non-Liquid
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: Quingestanol Acetate, 0.3 mg (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (dispenser material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (directions material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.1 cm x 7.5 cm; 7/16 in x 2 15/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 3 in; x 1.27 cm x 7.62 cm