Medical and Health Wishes

In 1961, the Berlin-based company Schering AG brought out the first birth control pill. Under the name “Anovlar” she was sold as a “means of addressing menstrual problems”, said the contraceptive effect only in a leaflet from the side effects. For moral reasons, the manufacturer advised physicians first prescribe Anovlar only married women with at least two children. But already in 1966 in West Germany, almost everyone knew what was meant by the “pill, and only four years later, the sales amounted to more than 27 million packages.

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