See Enovid & its packaging (1964) - The Pill - and an Enovid family planning pamphlet (1964)
Ad (1904) for Ergoapiol, treatment for painful or missing menstrual periods or other irregularities of the menstrual cycle - or for abortion
See early contraceptive sponges disguised for other uses.
Read about contraception and religion.
Would you stop menstruating if you could?
Patent medicine at this museum.
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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Would you stop menstruating if you could? |
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Read 10 years (1996-2006) of articles and Letters to Your MUM on this site.
Leer la versión en español de los siguientes temas: Anticoncepción y religión, Breve reseña - Olor - Religión y menstruación - Seguridad de productos para la menstruación.


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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!

Below: Back & front covers
 

NEXT | Back & front 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

See Enovid & its packaging (1964) - The Pill - and an Enovid family planning pamphlet (1964)
Ad (1904) for Ergoapiol, treatment for painful or missing menstrual periods or other irregularities of the menstrual cycle - or for abortion
See early contraceptive sponges disguised for other uses.
Read about contraception and religion.
Patent medicine at this museum.

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