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Events 180s – Galen The Genius Physician

GALEN – The Genius Physician Events 180 – 192: Reign of Commodus, Roman emperor. 184 – 205: The Yellow Turban Rebellion of the Han dynasty in China begins. 184 – 189: The Liang Province Rebellion breakouts in northwest China. 189 – 220: The end of the Han dynasty. The Goths reach the banks of the Black Sea. Lake Taupō in New Zealand erupts, forming ash clouds as far as China and Europe. In his Methodus Medendo, Greek physician Galen describes the connection between paralysis and the severing of the spinal cord. Galen’s popular work on hygiene is published. The Antonine Wall is overrun by the Picts in Britannia  189 Plague (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. Pantaenus, who was […]

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