Historical information

These items came from the Albert Street East Melbourne rooms of Dr Geoffrey Bishop. The contraceptive device was commonly used in the 1960s-early 1970s.

Significance

This is a variety of the Grafenberg Ring. The Grafenberg ring was developed by Dr Ernst Grafenberg in the late 1920s This coincided with the beginning of the modern birth control movement. Grafenberg and Herbert Hall et al migrated to the USA during the Hitler era and brought with them knowledge of the interuterine ring. Herbert Hall developed a stainless steel version of the Grafenberg ring in 1949 and used it with select private patients in New York. A report of his results in the American Journal of O&G in 1962. The Inhiband product bears his name in brackets.

Physical description

Container, plastic, containing Inhiband (Hall) intrauterine device in a sealed clear plastic bag [registration 30.3].