# Gruner publishes an English Book I of the Canon, opening the text beyond Latin faculties

Date: 1930

## The fact

Gruner’s 1930 treatise is also an access instrument: Book I in English, later scanned. The dated book is London’s. [Avicenna](/people/avicenna) did not English it. Readers without Latin could check what faculties had locked.

## Context

The same volume prints venesection. Split that harm. High confidence on publication.

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: Gruner, A Treatise on the Canon of Medicine of Avicenna (1930) — scan (https://archive.org/details/AvicennasCanonOfMedicine; Internet Archive).

## Significance

A 1930 English Book I is a knowledge-access gain, not a licence for depletion.

A 1930 English Book I is a knowledge-access gain, not a licence for depletion.

## 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

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://www.jameslindlibrary.org/articles/ibn-sinas-canon-of-medicine-11th-century-rules-for-assessing-the-effects-of-drugs/
- https://archive.org/details/AvicennasCanonOfMedicine

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/av-gruner-english-access-1930