Ortho Diaphragm
name: label: maker
content: Ortho Pharmaceutical Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: Vaginal diaphragm with an “ORTHO / 55” inscription in a circular blue metal case. A paper brochure gives “Directions For using the ORTHO DIAPHRAGM.” Ortho Pharmaceutical was formed in 1931 as a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, to produce Ortho-Gynol, the first prescription spermicidal contraceptive jelly. It introduced the coil-spring diaphragm in the 1940s.
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
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0160.05
label: accession number
content: 1980.0160
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0160.05
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Diaphragm
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (booklet, instruction material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall, canister: 7/8 in x 3 1/2 in; x 2.2225 cm x 8.89 cm