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Kamongo
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Published January 1, 1973
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Homer W. Smith
15 books6 followersDr Homer William Smith was an American physiologist and an advocate for science, who spent most of his career at New York University School of Medicine. His research work focused on the kidney and he discovered inulin at the same time as A.N. Richards. Dr. Smith authored several books including From Fish to Philosopher, Man and His Gods,and The Kidney: Structure and function in health and disease.
Homer Smith's elegant experiments on the kidney in the 1930s proved beyond any doubt that it operated according to physical principles, both as a filter and a secretory organ, eliminating the last vestige of Vitalism in physiology.
He also served on the board of trustees of Science Service, now known as Society for Science & the Public, from 1952-1955.
In 1932, he published 'Kamongo', a fictional account of his search for the lungfish, in which he questioned man 's place in nature by recounting, in a masterly fashion, an imaginary debate between a young scientist and an Anglican missionary as their ship moved
through the Red Sea.
A quarter of a century later, he re-examined the same subject on new
grounds: Man and His Gods considered man's ideas about the supernatural in the perspective of the evolution of Western theology and philosophy from the ancient Egyptians to the nineteenth century.
Dr. Smith is survived by his son, Homer Wilson Smith.
Homer Smith's elegant experiments on the kidney in the 1930s proved beyond any doubt that it operated according to physical principles, both as a filter and a secretory organ, eliminating the last vestige of Vitalism in physiology.
He also served on the board of trustees of Science Service, now known as Society for Science & the Public, from 1952-1955.
In 1932, he published 'Kamongo', a fictional account of his search for the lungfish, in which he questioned man 's place in nature by recounting, in a masterly fashion, an imaginary debate between a young scientist and an Anglican missionary as their ship moved
through the Red Sea.
A quarter of a century later, he re-examined the same subject on new
grounds: Man and His Gods considered man's ideas about the supernatural in the perspective of the evolution of Western theology and philosophy from the ancient Egyptians to the nineteenth century.
Dr. Smith is survived by his son, Homer Wilson Smith.
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