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

Date: 1930

## The fact

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

## Significance

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

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

## 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

- Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion

## Sources

- https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/avicenna-index
- https://archive.org/details/AvicennasCanonOfMedicine

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/av-wine-medicine-cohesion