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
Invariant of a binary form Invariant of a binary form In mathematical invariant theory, an invariant of a binary form is a polynomial in the coefficients of a binary form in two variables "x" and "y" that remains invariant under the special linear group acting on the variables "x" and "y". A binary form (of degree "n") is a homogeneous polynomial Σ ()"a""x""y" = "a""x" + ()"a""x""y" + ... + "a""y". The group "SL"(C) acts on these forms by taking "x" to "ax" + "by" and "y" to "cx" + "dy". This induces an action on the space spanned by "a", ..., "a" and on