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
Sesquilinear form to is Similarly, is orthogonal to with respect to , written (or simply if can be inferred from the context), when . This relation need not be symmetric, i.e. does not imply (but see "" below). A sesquilinear form is reflexive if, for all , That is, a sesquilinear form is reflexive precisely when the derived orthogonality relation is symmetric. A -sesquilinear form is called -Hermitian if there exists such that, for all , If , the form is called -"Hermitian", and if , it is called -"anti-Hermitian". (When is implied, respectively simply "Hermitian" or "anti-Hermitian".) For a nonzero -Hermitian