If you want to become convalescent you can--even yet.

It won't be easy; it will hurt; but you can do it, as I say, even yet.

But it is _you_ who must do it, not I or that bit of paper or Mulqueen! "Just now you happen to want to get well because the effect of alcohol poison disturbs you.

Things crawl, as you say, on the back of your hand.
Naturally, you don't care for such phenomena.
"Well, I've given you the key to mental and physical regeneration.

Yours is not an inherited appetite; yours is not one of those almost foredoomed and pitiable cases.