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Gruner’s Canon prints wine as a medical instrument against communal abstinence rules

The 1930 English Book I and related Canon regimen chapters treat wine as a graded medical substance. In communities that police drink as a cohesion rule, a physician’s wine-heading is a standing quarrel: care versus communal law. In the causal graph this event weakens Social Cohesion, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — a worsening welfare path.

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The 1930 English Book I and related Canon regimen chapters treat wine as a graded medical substance. The dated carrier is Gruner. In communities that police drink as a cohesion rule, a physician’s wine-heading is a standing quarrel: care versus communal law.

Context

A medical wine clause is not a tavern licence. It is a printed permission that later Unani and Latin readers used in opposite directions. Medium confidence.

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 wine-as-medicine is a cohesion stress where abstinence is a public rule.

Who was responsible

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

  • Avicenna

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.24 · 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 wine as a medical instrument against communal abstinence rules
    2. weakensDriverSocial Cohesion
    3. strengthensIndicators (2)Having a say in government
    Worsening path

    impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 1 January 1930 · verified

    Printed wine-as-medicine is a cohesion stress where abstinence is a public rule.

    • Having a say in government

      via Social Cohesion

      Worse

      Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.14 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)

      Worse than normal

      Two readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).

      20212023

      Above normal = better

    • Rule of Law Gap from the Highest Governance Score

      via Social Cohesion

      Worse

      Weakens · Relationship strength 0.14 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      43.9 Score · 43.9 above the normal line (2024)

      Worse than normal

      26 readings, 1996–2024: rose from 43 Score to 43.9 Score.

      Normal is zero · any amount = worse

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Encyclopaedia Iranica — Avicenna (index)Encyclopaedia Iranica · 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 wine as a medical instrument against communal abstinence rules
  3. weakensDriverSocial Cohesion
  4. strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government

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Factrail. (2026). Gruner’s Canon prints wine as a medical instrument against communal abstinence rules. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/av-wine-medicine-cohesion

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Accessed 16 October 2026.

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