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
A New Form of Beauty was a four-song 12" EP consisting of "Beast (Seven Bastard Suck)" on one side, and three tracks on the other side, subtitled "The Slow Children". The final musical installment in the series, "A New Form of Beauty 4" (1982), was a cassette release consisting of "Din Glorious", a mixture of previous "A New Form of Beauty" tracks and taped sounds recorded at the "A New Form of Beauty 5" exhibition at the Douglas Hyde Gallery at Trinity College, Dublin on 8 November 1981. The project also included two additional pieces, the unpublished book "A New Form of Beauty 6" and