Enovid Medical Brochure

Enovid Medical Brochure

G.D. Searle & Co.

Contraception

Birth control

Brochures

The pill was intensely scrutinized by the Food and Drug Administration. Results from these trials lead the FDA to approve the Enovid pill in 1957, but only for disorders of the female reproductive system. Searle would then seek the approval for the pill as a contraceptive, a non-therapeutic drug. The FDA launched an intense investigation and finally approved the 10mg Enovid pill for contraceptive use in 1960. This early brochure for the contraceptive Enovid was not for patient education, but for medical professionals only.

Front and back of medical brochure for Enovid, a birth control pill

G.D. Searle & Co.

1958

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John C. Rock personal and professional papers, 1918-1983. H MS c161. Box 2, folder 36.

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front and back of brochure

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Donated to the Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine by Mrs. Miriam Menkin