The Greek derivation proposed the hypothalamus. All the vertebrate brains contain a hypothalamus and are below the thalamus. Galen of Pergamon in the 2nd century AD was the first person to describe the hypothalamus and the pituitary gland. Galen delineates the hypothalamic infundibulum and the pituitary gland as a route for draining and receptacle for the mucus to carried out from the brain ventricular to the nasopharynx. The scientific thought was highly influenced by Galen’s idea on the hypothalamus and pituitary for around 1200 years until up to the 14th century. In the 14th century, an Italian anatomist named Mondino De’ Liuzzi suggested that the third ventricle role was like an “integrator” of the body functions.
In the 16th century,
In the 16th century,