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     MANUSCRIPTS and ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

Box MSS 00-04, S1, SS5, Box 3

 Container

Contains 5 Results:

Fourteen packets of standard Shields numbered 73263 73282; manufactured for AHR; bearing label Property of the Mexican Institute of Social Security.../Patent Number 113,969/November 12, 1969, December 1972

 File — Box: MSS 00-04, S1, SS5, Box 3
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Production commenced on the Dalkon Shield intrauterine device in 1968 under the direction of inventors Hugh Davis, gynecologist, and Irwin Lerner, electrical engineer. In early 1970 Davis and Lerner looked for a pharmaceutical company to market their product more widely, and by June of that year, AHR agreed to purchase it. The Dalkon Shield came in two sizes: standard, for women who had already had children (multiparous), and small, for women who had never had children...
Dates: December 1972

Box for packets of standard Shields numbered F030; manufactured by the Dalkon Corporation, Stamford, CT, 1970

 File — Box: MSS 00-04, S1, SS5, Box 3
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Production commenced on the Dalkon Shield intrauterine device in 1968 under the direction of inventors Hugh Davis, gynecologist, and Irwin Lerner, electrical engineer. In early 1970 Davis and Lerner looked for a pharmaceutical company to market their product more widely, and by June of that year, AHR agreed to purchase it. The Dalkon Shield came in two sizes: standard, for women who had already had children (multiparous), and small, for women who had never had children...
Dates: 1970

Box of standard Shields bearing no production number; manufactured for A.H. Robins Co., Richmond, VA, July 1970

 File — Box: MSS 00-04, S1, SS5, Box 3
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Production commenced on the Dalkon Shield intrauterine device in 1968 under the direction of inventors Hugh Davis, gynecologist, and Irwin Lerner, electrical engineer. In early 1970 Davis and Lerner looked for a pharmaceutical company to market their product more widely, and by June of that year, AHR agreed to purchase it. The Dalkon Shield came in two sizes: standard, for women who had already had children (multiparous), and small, for women who had never had children...
Dates: July 1970

Box for packets of standard Shields numbered 715711; manufactured for the A.H. Robins Co., Richmond, VA, April 1971

 File — Box: MSS 00-04, S1, SS5, Box 3
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Production commenced on the Dalkon Shield intrauterine device in 1968 under the direction of inventors Hugh Davis, gynecologist, and Irwin Lerner, electrical engineer. In early 1970 Davis and Lerner looked for a pharmaceutical company to market their product more widely, and by June of that year, AHR agreed to purchase it. The Dalkon Shield came in two sizes: standard, for women who had already had children (multiparous), and small, for women who had never had children...
Dates: April 1971

Box for packets of standard Shields numbered 73424; manufactured for AHR, June 1972

 File — Box: MSS 00-04, S1, SS5, Box 3
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Production commenced on the Dalkon Shield intrauterine device in 1968 under the direction of inventors Hugh Davis, gynecologist, and Irwin Lerner, electrical engineer. In early 1970 Davis and Lerner looked for a pharmaceutical company to market their product more widely, and by June of that year, AHR agreed to purchase it. The Dalkon Shield came in two sizes: standard, for women who had already had children (multiparous), and small, for women who had never had children...
Dates: June 1972