Article ID: CBB000831672

Lãn Ông (Lê Hu'u Trác, 1720--91) and the Vietnamese Medical Tradition (2007)

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The 18th-century physician Hai Thu'o'ng Lãn Ông is the most celebrated practitioner of Vietnamese medicine. He wrote medical texts and poetry that included, unusually for the time, an autobiographical element and he is the first Vietnamese physician for whom significant biographical information is available. Educated in classical Chinese medicine, he incorporated into the pharmacopoeia traditional herbal remedies indigenous to Vietnam. Despite his inclination to pursue a secluded life, he became the foremost physician of his day and was summoned to the corrupt court of the Trinh Lords in Hanoi, of which he left a revealing account. Since the 19th century his writings have been central to the canon of traditional Vietnamese medicine.

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Authors & Contributors
Michele Riva
Erik Sganzerla
Loredana Ginevra Ianni
C. J. Duffin
Garbarino, Maria Carla
Luca Ventura
Concepts
Medicine
Physicians; doctors
Biographies
Medicine, Chinese traditional
Medicine, herbal
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
Enlightenment
20th century
Meiji period (Japan, 1868-1910)
Places
China
Great Britain
Scotland
Italy
Thailand
Québec (Canada)
Institutions
Paris. Jardin Royal des Plantes
Halle-Wittenberg. Universität
Académie Royale des Sciences (France)
Great Britain. Royal Navy
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