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     MANUSCRIPTS and ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

Box MSS 00-04, S1. SS5, Box 1

 Container

Contains 5 Results:

Two packets of standard Shields with production number 6030; manufactured by the Dalkon Corporation, Stamford, CT, 1970

 File — Box: MSS 00-04, S1. SS5, Box 1
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 standard Shields without a production number; manufactured for A.H. Robins Co., Richmond, VA, July 1970

 File — Box: MSS 00-04, S1. SS5, Box 1
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

Nine packets of standard Shields numbered A7041, A7141, A7201; manufactured for AHR, April 1971

 File — Box: MSS 00-04, S1. SS5, Box 1
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

Six packets of standard Shields numbered A7381, A7511, 715711, and not numbered; manufactured for AHR, July 1971

 File — Box: MSS 00-04, S1. SS5, Box 1
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 1971

Seven packets of standard Shields numbered 72239 72329; manufactured for AHR, June 1972

 File — Box: MSS 00-04, S1. SS5, Box 1
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