Re: Kate and homeopathy

[Slick Tongue Corections <jsd@gaffa.MIT.EDU>]

>Really-From: juli@carr.dartmouth.edu (Julian West)
>
>The title of Kate's video compilation _The Hair of the Hound_ is a variant
>of the well-known phrase "the hair of the dog that bit him". This is defined 
>in _Chambers_ (1983) as "a smaller dose of what ails one: _a homeopathic
>remedy_"  (emphasis ours). More grist for the Kate and homeopathy debate?

Gee, I didn't realize it had an actual etymology - I just knew the
phrase as referring to that hangover "cure" of drinking a little bit
more of whatever one had been drinking the night before to drive off a
hangover.

Personally, I think Vyvyan had the right idea when he came downstairs
with a stick of dynamite strapped to his head and said "I have *GOT*
to get rid of this hangover" before pushing the plunger.

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