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The James Lind Library publishes Ibn Sina’s Canon rules for assessing the effects of drugs

In 2007 the James Lind Library issued Nasser, Tibi and Savage-Smith’s commentary on Canon rules for testing simples: identity of the drug, testing in the natural state, and related conditions. In the causal graph this event sets in motion Health-System Capacity, a driver that strengthens Hospital beds (per 1,000 people) — an improving welfare path.

The James Lind Library publishes Ibn Sina’s Canon rules for assessing the effects of drugs

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In 2007 the James Lind Library issued Nasser, Tibi and Savage-Smith’s commentary on Canon rules for testing simples: identity of the drug, testing in the natural state, and related conditions. Avicenna did not file a 2007 protocol. The rules are a received heading for later trial talk, not a randomised-trial statute.

Context

Rules on paper do not staff a regulator. High confidence on the 2007 publication and on the Canon passage as transmitted.

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.

Who was responsible

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

  • Avicenna

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.32 · 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. FactThe James Lind Library publishes Ibn Sina’s Canon rules for assessing the effects of drugs
    2. sets in motionDriverHealth-System Capacity
    3. strengthensIndicators (2)Hospital beds (per 1,000 people)
    Improving path

    impact weight 0.45 · Effect from 1 January 2007 · verified

    • Hospital beds (per 1,000 people)

      via Health-System Capacity

      Better

      Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.27 (weight 0.45 × strength 0.6)

      Observed

      3.08 Per 1000 people · 1.24 below the normal line (2023)

      Worse than normal

      6 readings, 2018–2023: rose from 3.07 Per 1000 people to 3.08 Per 1000 people.

      Above normal = better

    • Under-five mortality rate (global)

      via Health-System Capacity

      Better

      Weakens · Relationship strength 0.23 (weight 0.45 × strength 0.5)

      Observed

      37.4 deaths per 1,000 live births · 12.4 above the normal line (2024)

      Worse than normal

      7 readings, 2018–2024: fell from 40 deaths per 1,000 live births to 37.4 deaths per 1,000 live births.

      Above normal = worse

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Nasser, Tibi, Savage-Smith — Ibn Sina’s Canon drug-assessment rulesPubMed Central / JRSM · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.James Lind Library — Ibn Sina’s Canon: rules for assessing the effects of drugsJames Lind Library · High credibility · verified

Causal path

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

  1. ActorAvicenna
  2. contributed toFactThe James Lind Library publishes Ibn Sina’s Canon rules for assessing the effects of drugs
  3. sets in motionDriverHealth-System Capacity
  4. strengthensIndicatorHospital beds (per 1,000 people)

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Factrail. (2026). The James Lind Library publishes Ibn Sina’s Canon rules for assessing the effects of drugs. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/av-james-lind-drug-rules-2007

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Accessed 17 October 2026.

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