[The thesis of Reininger (1722) in the history of pituitary sinuses]. / La thèse de Reininger (1722) dans l'histoire des sinus pituitaires.

The thesis written by Sebastian Reininger in 1722 was conserved by Albert de Haller, the renowned scholar who collected interesting medical publications in the 18th century. He included Reininger's work on the pituitary sinuses in his Disputationes anatomicae. This thesis is probably the first published work dealing exclusively with the sinuses and their anatomy, function and pathology. There are also some comments on therapy. It was thus written before thesis by Ludolph Heinrich Runge (1750) often cited as the earliest work in this field. The Reininger dissertation is based on a personal series of cranial dissections and is completed with references to other authors of the same period. It is an interesting synopsis of the knowledge of pituitary sinuses at the beginning of the 18th century.