Gammal och sjuk, monterdel, Old and sick

FATTIGBÖSSA, troligen från en kyrka på Hisingen. I den lägger de som vill och har råd pengar till de fattiga. (GM:5718)
KÄPP att stödja sig på, för den som är trött och har svårt att gå. (GM:41222)
APOTEKSFLASKOR av glas och keramik, hittade där apoteket Enhörningen låg på Södra hamngatan 13. (G:1977:1:1, G:1977:1:5)
TREFOTSGRYTA, för att laga mat i. Från Torggatan, Nordstaden. (GM:13972)
BILD. Tiggare med träben, etsning av Rembrandt van Rijn, 1630. (Göteborgs konstmuseum G 14/1939)

Gothenburg's first chemist's shop opened in 1642 at Södra Hamngatan 13, right across the canal Stora Hamnkanalen. The chemist's shop remained at the same place until 1915. It was called Enhörningen (The Unicorn), and sold medicines, spices, spiced wine and sweets. But no medicine can help against age. When people grew old their family took care of them - if they had a family. Gunhild was old, sick and childless but she had a house. Sven Horn and his wife were allowed to take over the house in return for lokking after the old woman. But soon there was a romour that Gunhild was starving to death. Some members of the civic administration were sent there and found her. She was so thin that she was just skin and bone. That was not what was supposed to happen. Sven Horn was made to leave and the people who controlled the city had to find somewhere else to take care of both Gunhild and the house.
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POOR BOX, perhaps from a church on Hisingen. In it people who wanted to and could afford to placed money for the poor. (GM:5718)
CANE to support someone who is tired and has difficulty walking. (GM:41222)
CHEMIST'S BOTTLES made of glas and cermaics, found on the site of the Enhörningen chemist's shop at Södra Hamngatan 13. (G:1977:1:1, 1977:1:5)
THREE-LEGGED CAULDRON for cooking in. From Torggatan, Nordstaden. (GM:13972)
IMAGE. Beggar with a wooden leg, etching by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1630. (The Gothenburg Museum of Art G 14/1939)