............been thinking....

[Purple_Popple]

and reminiscing, to when you could buy your painkillers in those brown glass bottles, but what was the purpose of the cotton wool stuffed in the neck of the bottles ??

[ummmm]

So they didn't rattle round in the bottle and break up...

That's just a guess.

[Prudie]

To soak up any damp?

[B00]

Good question!

Don't know.

[Invictas]

ummmm is 100% correct.
When I was teenager I used to deilver(on a push bike) prescriptions to patients.
I wondered this too, and what ummmm says is what the Chemist told me.

[Purple_Popple]

oooooooo.......just something simple and effective - a bit of cotton wool...brilliant....never ever thought that, thanks ummmm ! :)

[4getmenot]

they used o do orange flavoured headache tablets for kids, silly thing was they tasted so nice I kept stealing them out cupboards

[oopsydoopsy]

.......and how's your liver damage now 4get ????!!

[boxtops]

I thought that the cotton wool just filled up the gap in the bottles.

[Mick-Talbot]

?

you lot must be ancient, cotton wool in a bottle?

[mike11111]

Oi, not so much of the ancient. I can remember when liquid medicine came in bottles stopped with a cork.

[boxtops]

So do I mike, and the bottles which had toxic content were ribbed, so you could tell the difference if you were blind.

[Bbbananas]

I can remember the cotton wool in tablet bottles - but my first experience of ribbed items (before condoms.....) was the horrible tight sweaty choking polo necks mother made me wear.