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
Harmonic Maass form combinatorial, arithmetic, or geometric generating functions. Regularized theta lifts of harmonic Maass forms can be used to construct Arakelov Green functions for special divisors on orthogonal Shimura varieties. A complex-valued smooth function on the upper half-plane is called a weak Maass form of integral weight (for the group ) if it satisfies the following three conditions: If is a weak Maass form with eigenvalue 0 under formula_4, that is, if formula_5, then is called a harmonic weak Maass form, or briefly a harmonic Maass form. Every harmonic Maass form of weight has a Fourier expansion of the form where ,