Comments on: Hair of the dog??? http://blog.ashleyfires.com/ashley-fires/hair-of-the-dog.html Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:34:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Charlie http://blog.ashleyfires.com/ashley-fires/hair-of-the-dog.html/comment-page-1#comment-86 Charlie Mon, 02 Feb 2009 06:19:19 +0000 http://blog.ashleyfires.com/?p=77#comment-86 “Hair of the dog that bit you” comes from an erroneous method of treatment of a rabid dog bite by placing hair from the dog in the bite wound. The use of the phrase as a metaphor for a hangover treatment dates back to the time of William Shakespeare. Ebenezer Cobham Brewer writes in the Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898): "In Scotland it is a popular belief that a few hairs of the dog that bit you applied to the wound will prevent evil consequences. Applied to drinks, it means, if overnight you have indulged too freely, take a glass of the same wine next morning to soothe the nerves. 'If this dog do you bite, soon as out of your bed, take a hair of the tail in the morning.'" "Take the hair, it's well written, Of the dog by which you're bitten; Work off one wine by his brother, And one labour with another ... Cook with cook, and strife with strife: Business with business, wife with wife." - Aristophanes Hair of the Dog Brewing Company of Portland Oregon brews organic beers. “Hair of the dog that bit you” comes from an erroneous method of treatment of a rabid dog bite by placing hair from the dog in the bite wound. The use of the phrase as a metaphor for a hangover treatment dates back to the time of William Shakespeare.

Ebenezer Cobham Brewer writes in the Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898): “In Scotland it is a popular belief that a few hairs of the dog that bit you applied to the wound will prevent evil consequences. Applied to drinks, it means, if overnight you have indulged too freely, take a glass of the same wine next morning to soothe the nerves. ‘If this dog do you bite, soon as out of your bed, take a hair of the tail in the morning.’”

“Take the hair, it’s well written,
Of the dog by which you’re bitten;
Work off one wine by his brother,
And one labour with another …
Cook with cook, and strife with strife:
Business with business, wife with wife.”
– Aristophanes

Hair of the Dog Brewing Company of Portland Oregon brews organic beers.

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