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 of a complex Hermitian form is a Hermitian matrix. A complex Hermitian form applied to a single vector is always real. One can show that a complex sesquilinear form is Hermitian iff the associated quadratic form is real for all . A complex skew-Hermitian form (also called an antisymmetric sesquilinear form), is a complex sesquilinear form such that Every complex skew-Hermitian form can be written as times a Hermitian form. The matrix representation of a complex skew-Hermitian form is a skew-Hermitian matrix. A complex skew-Hermitian form applied to a single vector is always pure imaginary. This section applies unchanged when