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
A woman who has donated other
items to MUM kindly donated this
brochure to the museum.
Thanks!
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Below:
Pp. 28-29. Chronic
tocicity.
How supplied.
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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
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