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Gruner’s Canon prints transmission and contact headings that later readers used against purely local miasma

Gruner 1930 and the Latin-Arabic tradition it reports include passages on communication of illness, not only on humoral imbalance in a closed body. A transmission heading can weaken a purely local-miasma reading. In the causal graph this event weakens Infectious-Disease Transmission, a driver that weakens Life expectancy at birth — an improving welfare path.

Gruner’s Canon prints transmission and contact headings that later readers used against purely local miasma

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Gruner 1930 and the Latin-Arabic tradition it reports include passages on communication of illness, not only on humoral imbalance in a closed body. The dated English instrument is Gruner. A transmission heading can weaken a purely local-miasma reading. It is not germ theory and not a quarantine statute.

Context

The same Book I still organises crisis and depletion. Split those harms.

Avicenna is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

Why it matters

Printed transmission headings are a modest infectious-disease control path, not a microbiology lab.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Avicenna

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.28 · verified

    Named physician-philosopher as heading of later editions, faculties, and commemorations. Printers, faculties, and agencies publish the instrument.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactGruner’s Canon prints transmission and contact headings that later readers used against purely local miasma
    2. weakensDriverInfectious-Disease Transmission
    3. weakensIndicators (3)Life expectancy at birth
    Mixed path

    impact weight 0.35 · Effect from 1 January 1930 · verified

    Printed transmission headings are a modest infectious-disease control path, not a microbiology lab.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Moosavi — The Place of Avicenna in the History of MedicinePubMed Central · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Gruner, A Treatise on the Canon of Medicine of Avicenna (1930) — scanInternet Archive · High credibility · verified

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorAvicenna
  2. contributed toFactGruner’s Canon prints transmission and contact headings that later readers used against purely local miasma
  3. weakensDriverInfectious-Disease Transmission
  4. weakensIndicatorLife expectancy at birth

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Factrail. (2026). Gruner’s Canon prints transmission and contact headings that later readers used against purely local miasma. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/av-contagion-chapter-print

https://factrail.ai/facts/av-contagion-chapter-print

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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