Medicine in ancient Rome mother's milk (or colostrum) is actually a rather effective treatment. Colostrum has been shown to prevent the growth of "Staphylococcus" bacteria, which are a known cause of several types of infection. Colostrum is about half as effective as some antibiotics prescribed to patients today. Colostrum is also effective against the bacterium chlamydia; this is the cause of a sexually transmitted disease and also can cause severe sight impairment, if not blindness. Thus, colostrum was a rather effective treatment in the ancient world – perhaps that is why it was viewed as a divine treatment. The interpretation of dreams was another
Blake canonical form Blake canonical form In Boolean logic, a formula for a Boolean function "f" is in Blake canonical form (BCF), also called the complete sum of prime implicants, the complete sum, or the disjunctive prime form, when it is a disjunction of all the prime implicants of "f". The Blake canonical form is a disjunctive normal form. The Blake canonical form is not necessarily minimal, however all the terms of a minimal sum are contained in the Blake canonical form. It was introduced in 1937 by Archie Blake, who called it the "simplified canonical form"; it was named in honor of