英语词汇hair of the dog that bit you的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

hair of the dog that bit you. Like cures like, similia similibus curantur, the Romans believed, like many ancient peoples be- fore them, and they commonly bound hairs of a dog that had bitten someone to that person’s wound in order to make it heal better—even if the dog was rabid. The treatment was recom- mended for centuries by serious medical books, about the only change until medieval times being that burnt hair of the dog that bit you was prescribed. By then it was also believed that the best cure for a hangover was a drink of the same poison that “stifflicated” you the night before, and the old proverb a hair of the dog that bit you applied to this practice. The first mention of the phrase in reference to hangovers is in John Hey- wood’s Proverbs (1546): “I pray thee leat me and my fellow have a heare of the dog that bote us last night—and bitten were we both to the braine aright.”

词汇	hair of the dog that bit you
词源	hair of the dog that bit you. Like cures like, similia similibus curantur, the Romans believed, like many ancient peoples be- fore them, and they commonly bound hairs of a dog that had bitten someone to that person’s wound in order to make it heal better—even if the dog was rabid. The treatment was recom- mended for centuries by serious medical books, about the only change until medieval times being that burnt hair of the dog that bit you was prescribed. By then it was also believed that the best cure for a hangover was a drink of the same poison that “stifflicated” you the night before, and the old proverb a hair of the dog that bit you applied to this practice. The first mention of the phrase in reference to hangovers is in John Hey- wood’s Proverbs (1546): “I pray thee leat me and my fellow have a heare of the dog that bote us last night—and bitten were we both to the braine aright.”
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