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A TABLET DISPENSER COMPRISING A TUBULAR DISPENSER BODY HAVING FIRST AND SECOND END PORTIONS, A WALL CLOSING SAID FIRST END PORTION, A PERIPHERAL EDGE OF SAID SECOND END PORTION DEFINING A NORMALLY GENERALLY OVAL-SHAPED OPENING, SAID OVAL-SHAPED OPENING BEING NORMALLY EFFECTIVE TO PREVENT TABLETS FROM PASSING OUTWARDLY THERETHROUGH, SAID BODY BETWEEN SAID OVAL-SHAPED OPENING AND SAID CLOSING WALL BEING GENERALLY NORMALLY CIRCULAR IN TRANSVERSE CROSS-SECTION, FREE OF INWARD PROJECTIONS AND OF A SIZE NORMALLY EFFECTIVE TO PERMIT TABLET MOVEMENT TOWARD SAID OVAL-SHAPED OPENING, AND DEPRESSIBLE MEANS FORMING AN INTEGRAL PORTION OF SAID BODY ADJACENT SAID PERIPHERAL EDGE FOR CHANGING THE OVAL-SHAPE OF SAID OPENING TO A GENERALLY CIRCULAR SHAPE WHEREBY A SINGLE TABLET CAN BE DISPENSED THROUGH SAID OPENING AND ALSO CHANGING THE CIRCULAR CROSS-SECTION OF THE ADJACENT BODY PORTION TO A GENERALLY OVAL-SHAPED CROSS-SECTIONAL CONFIGURATION WHEREBY REMAINING TABLETS IN SAID BODY ARE RETAINED THEREIN, SAID DEPRESSIBLE MEANS COMPRISING A DEPRESSIBLE WALL BETWEEN SAID BODY PORTION AND SAID PERIPHERAL EDGE, SAID DEPRESSIBLE WALL DEFINING A TABLET-RECEIVING CHAMBER HAVING AN AXIAL LENGTH CORRESPONDING GENERALLY TO THE THICKNESS OF TABLETS PACKAGED IN SAID BODY.