# Gohlman’s vita shows medicine as a court service, not a civilian relief charter

Date: 1974

## The fact

The 1974 Life records imprisonment, flight, and service tied to princely households. A physician who follows a court can be unavailable to a city under siege that is not the patron’s city. Later military hospitals citing the Canon inherit that limit when care is an office perk.

## Context

Bimaristan practice in the wider Islamic medical world is a different institution, stored as improving where sources support it.

[Avicenna](/people/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.

## Evidence and sources

The named official or archival page and the independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Gohlman, The Life of Ibn Sina (SUNY) (https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-Life-of-Ibn-Sina; SUNY Press).

## Significance

Court-tied care is a [humanitarian-access](/drivers/humanitarian-access) limit for people outside the household.

Court-tied care is a humanitarian-access limit for people outside the household.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

## People

- Avicenna: https://factrail.ai/people/avicenna

## Drivers

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-Life-of-Ibn-Sina
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Avicenna

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/av-court-medicine-civilian-limit