A small amount of what made one ill might be used as a remedy; recipe for curing a hangover. This expression appeared in John Heywood’s Proverbs of 1546 (“I pray thee let me and my fellow have a haire of the dog that bit us last night”) and alludes to the even older folk remedy of treating a dog bite by placing the burnt hair of a dog on the wound.
Although having a drink is a dubious cure for the aftereffects of alcoholic
overindulgence, the expression is still used, and occasionally is transferred
to other matters.
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