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 or decimics. "Quantic" is an old name for a form of arbitrary degree. Forms in 1, 2, 3, 4, ... variables are called unary, binary, ternary, quaternary, ... forms. A form "f" is itself a covariant of degree 1 and order "n". The discriminant of a form is an invariant. The resultant of two forms is a simultaneous invariant of them. The Hessian covariant of a form is the determinant of the Hessian matrix It is a covariant of order 2"n"− 4 and degree 2. The catalecticant is an invariant of degree "n"/2+1 of a binary form of even degree