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     MANUSCRIPTS and ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

Box MSS 00-04, S1, SS5 Box 4

 Container

Contains 4 Results:

Two packets of small Shields with production number 6200; manufactured by the Dalkon Corporation, Stamford, CT, 1970

 File — Box: MSS 00-04, S1, SS5 Box 4
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

Ten packets of small Shields numbered 6430, 6450, 645016 n.d.; manufactured for A.H. Robins Co., Richmond, VA, 1970

 File — Box: MSS 00-04, S1, SS5 Box 4
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

One packet of small Shields numbered A6931; manufactured for AHR, November 1970

 File — Box: MSS 00-04, S1, SS5 Box 4
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: November 1970

Seventeen packets of small Shields numbered A7091, A7341, 71359, 71369, 71379; manufactured for AHR, April 1971

 File — Box: MSS 00-04, S1, SS5 Box 4
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