Libby is Shedding OR The Wine was Perfection Last Evening

"I pray thee let me and my fellow have a hair of the dog that bit us last night."

We hear this expression and it usually means having a little more alcohol in the morning as a way to stop the nausea, headaches, and queasiness of a hangover. But where does the expression come from? The use of the phrase as a metaphor for a hangover treatment dates back to the time of William Shakespeare. Even back in 1898, partying guys and gals were drinking the next day in order to trick their bodies into thinking they are OK. 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.’” He also cites two apocryphal poems containing the phrase, one of which is attributed to Aristophanes. It is possible that the phrase was used to justify an existing practice, and the idea of Similia similibus curantur (”like cures like”) dates back at least to the time of Hippocrates. The actual origin of the phrase is literal, and comes from an erroneous method of treatment of a rabid dog bite by placing hair from the dog in the bite wound. (Thank God for Louis Pasteur, the rabies vaccine was developed by Louis Pasteur in 1885, derived from the nerve tissue of infected rabbits)

On that happy note......... It is Sunday morning.....dressed for church, where IS that hair of the dog? Love you. Me