Ad (1904) for Ergoapiol, treatment for painful or missing menstrual periods or
other irregularities of the menstrual cycle - or for abortion
Read Malcolm Gladwell's riveting New Yorker magazine article
about the invention of the birth control pill.
See other early
Pills from the National Museum of American History.
 
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MUSEUM OF MENSTRUATION AND WOMEN'S HEALTH
Enovid brochure for early oral birth control
Pill (Physicians' Product Brochure No. 67)
From G.D. Searle & Co., 1960
Enovid brand of norethynodrel, with ethynylestradiol 3-methyl ether
"For Disturbances of Menstruation and Pregnancy and for Ovulation Control"
"For the medical profession only"
Family planning, premenstrual tension (PMS), infertility
Read this account for medical people of the background
and uses of this birth con-, er, it really does not speak of this except
as "control of ovulation."
But see and read more about
Enovid - The Pill -, a steroid that changed society.
A woman who has donated other items to MUM kindly donated this brochure
to the museum. Thanks!
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Below: Back & front covers
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covers - inside front cover & title page (1)
- contents, 3 - 4-5:
Amenorrhea, primary or secondary - 6-7: Metrorrhagia
(functional bleeding), menorrhagia (prolonged or excessive bleeding), hypomenorrhea
- 8-9: endocrine sterility, abortion - 10-11: Idiopathic sterility - 12-13:
Ovulation control - 14-15 - 16-17:
Endometriosis - 18-19: Premenstrual tension (PMS),
dysmenorrhea, side effects - 20-21: Special notes:
"There are no known true contraindications to
Enovid," chemistry - 22-23: Human
pharmacology, action on the endometrium - 24-25:
Action on gonadotropin excretion, testes, vaginal desquamation. Animal pharmacology:
uterine effects, anterior pituitary gland effects -
26-27: Fertility studies, other effects. Toxicity studies: acute, subacute
- 28-29: Chronic toxicity. How supplied - 30-31: References - 34 &
inside back cover
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