Health & Medicine in the 2nd century

14 sourced entries, 100 CE to 189 CE, oldest first. Also see Health & Medicine across every century or everything else in the 2nd century.

• 100Teotihuacan, a major city at the centre of modern-day Mexico, reaches a population of around 60,000–80,000.source
• 100Paper is used by the general populace in China, starting around this year.source
• 100The Temple of the God of Medicine is built in Anguo, China.source
• 118Rome has a population exceeding 1 million, making it the largest city in the world.source
• 125Plague sweeps North Africa in the wake of a locust invasion that destroys large areas of cropland. The plague kills as many as 500,000 in Numidia and possibly 150,000 on the coast before moving to Italy, where it takes so many lives that villages and towns are abandoned. (or was it around 125 BC)source
• 142Municipal doctors are named throughout the Roman Empire.source
• 143The Roman doctor Antyllus performs the first arteriotomy.source
• 165Antonine Plague: A pandemic breaks out in Rome, after the Roman army returns from Parthia. The plague significantly depopulates the Roman Empire and China.source
• 166A plague (possibly small pox) comes from the East and spreads throughout the Roman Empire, lasting for roughly twenty years.source
• 170Marcus Aurelius orders humane treatment for Christians and slaves throughout the Roman Empire.source
• 172Emperor Marcus Aurelius crosses the Danube with an expeditionary force. He subdues the Marcomanni and their allies and then, in a pact signed with the Germanic tribes, he imports them into the Roman Empire to occupy areas that have been depopulated by the plague.source
• 180In his Methodus Medendo, Greek physician Galen describes the connection between paralysis and the severing of the spinal cord.source
• 185Tigidius Perennis, his family and many others are executed for conspiring against Commodus.source
• 189Plague (possibly smallpox) kills as many as 2,000 people per day in Rome. Farmers are unable to harvest their crops, and food shortages bring riots in the city.source