Ortho-Novum Dialpak
date: label: date made
content: ca 1963
name: 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 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: This is an Ortho-Novum Dialpak dispenser that was manufactured by the Ortho Pharmaceutical Company of Raritan, New Jersey, during the 1960s. The 20-pill Dialpak has a central “calendar disc” listing the days of the week, with each day aligning with the pill slot that containing that day’s pill. This Dialpak originally dispensed a 10-milligram pill, but is now empty. The back of the Dialpak contains instructions on how to use the device.
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
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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: 1982.0531.036
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0531.036
label: accession number
content: 1982.0531
objectType: label: Object Name
content: contraceptive, oral, demonstration package
label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical, Dial Pak
label: Object Name
content: oral contraceptive, demonstration package
label: Other Terms
content: pharmaceutical, Dial Pak; Pharmaceutical; Contraceptive; Oral Contraceptive; Tablets
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: mestranol,.06 mg (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: norethindrone,10 mg (drug active ingredients)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .6 cm x 6.5 cm; 1/4 in x 2 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 2 5/8 in; .9525 cm x 6.6675 cm