Le Huu Trac was called Hai Th­uong Lan Ong (1720-1791). He was a outstanding traditional physician of Vietnam in XVIII century. His work is “Hai Th­uong y tong tam linh” includes 28 sections, 66 volumes. This book has value in various fields: medicine, literature, history and philosophy. In medicine, Hai Thuong Lan Ong work showed that he is not only a pre-eminent medical theoretician, experienced clinician but also a person who had profound ideology on professional ethic for physicians. These ideologies were introduced more or less and shoot through in his work. Now, the value of ideologies is a lesson for the development of health system in new era, in industrialization and modernization period
Ethics, Medical ; Education, Medical ; Medicine, Traditional

Recent years, in the light of the modern scientific knowledge, own opinions of health and illness expand more and more, methods for preventing, treating illness and improved health also become more abundant and various. However, if going deeply to study ideology of ancient people, especially in Philosopher and the ancient Orient medicine, we can see that established a pretty comprehensive opinion of health and ill issues in early stage by the Orient people: coming from its content to establish preventing, treating and developing health methods. Studying opinions of ancient people to health and illness have a great significance into Vietnamese population’s health care work in recent period.
Medicine, Traditional ; Health ; Medicine, Oriental Traditional ; Orientation