Improved pack for the administration of oral contraceptive drugs

Abstract

Abstract 992,160. Oral contraceptive drug packs. S. P. PARASKEVAS. March 12, 1963, No. 9814/63. Headings B8C and B8F. A pack of detachable tablets for use as an oral contraceptive comprises a supporting envelope containing twenty-seven individually packed tablets arranged in order, wherein the fifth to the twenty-fourth tablets in the order contain medication, the remaining tablets are free of medication (being made, for example, from starch), and the first and last tablets in the order and/or their association portions of the supporting envelope are visually distinguishable from all the remaining tablets and from each other. The pack may be arranged in straight linear order or in three rows of nine tablets, the first tablet or corresponding envelope portion being coloured red and the last tablet or envelope portion coloured green or blue, all the remaining tablets or envelope portions being white or colourless. Instead or additionally numbers (1 to 27) may be imprinted on the tablets or envelope. The first and last tablets may be of different shape or volume from all the remaining tablets and from each other.

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