Mauriņa Baiba, Sidlovska Venta
Museum of Pharmacy, Riga, Latvia.
Medicina (Kaunas). 2004;40(1):81-3.
Very little is known about the history of pharmaceutical industry in Latvia, especially about the history of small pharmaceutical enterprises in Riga at the turn of 19-20th centuries. The laboratory of Wilhelm Grining, Master of Pharmacy, (established in 1899) became well known because of its product Liquor Ferri albuminati Grining. The liquor was used for treatment of anemia and became very popular in the whole Russian empire. The owner of the laboratory Wilhelm Grining was a very erudite man and also a good businessman. He was a son of a pharmacist and has been acquainted with apothecary's practice and specificity of the work of the owner of a pharmacy since his childhood. Wilhelm Grining was particularly interested in proteins and started to carry out scientific research both in the fields of chemistry and pharmacy. He participated with his reports in the congresses of Russian Pharmacy Society and published his works in the journal of Russian Pharmacy. Besides all this W. Grining is believed to be the author of the concoction of curative herbs "Trejos devynerios". Biography of W. Grining, as well as the products produced by his pharmaceutical laboratory, was explored using materials from the archive of Latvian State history and 19th century's German literature of pharmaceutical history.
人们对拉脱维亚制药行业的历史知之甚少，尤其是19世纪末20世纪初里加小型制药企业的历史。药剂师威廉·格里宁（Wilhelm Grining）的实验室（成立于1899年）因其产品格里宁氏蛋白铁溶液（Liquor Ferri albuminati Grining）而闻名。该溶液用于治疗贫血，在整个俄罗斯帝国都非常受欢迎。实验室所有者威廉·格里宁是一个学识渊博的人，也是一位优秀的商人。他是一名药剂师的儿子，从小就熟悉药剂师的业务以及药店老板工作的特殊性。威廉·格里宁对蛋白质特别感兴趣，并开始在化学和药学领域开展科学研究。他在俄罗斯药学协会的大会上发表报告，并在《俄罗斯药学杂志》上发表作品。除此之外，W. 格里宁被认为是治疗草药配方“Trejos devynerios”的作者。利用拉脱维亚国家历史档案馆的资料和19世纪德国药学历史文献，对W. 格里宁的生平以及他的制药实验室生产的产品进行了研究。
