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
Modular form The situation with modular forms is precisely analogous. Modular forms can also be profitably approached from this geometric direction, as sections of line bundles on the moduli space of elliptic curves. If "f" is holomorphic at the cusp (has no pole at "q" = 0), it is called an entire modular form. If "f" is meromorphic but not holomorphic at the cusp, it is called a non-entire modular form. For example, the j-invariant is a non-entire modular form of weight 0, and has a simple pole at i∞. Other common generalizations allow the weight "k" to not be an integer,