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 polynomials on "V". Invariants of a binary form of degree "n" correspond to taking "V" to be the ("n" + 1)-dimensional irreducible representation, and covariants correspond to taking "V" to be the sum of the irreducible representations of dimensions 2 and "n" + 1. The invariants of a binary form form a graded algebra, and proved that this algebra is finitely generated if the base field is the complex numbers. Forms of degrees 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 are sometimes called quadrics, cubic, quartics, quintics, sextics, septics or septimics, octics or octavics, nonics, and decics