‘If you are idle, be not solitary, ’ said Doctor Johnson, ‘and if you are solitary, be not idle.’
As usual, the Great Cham of literature was right, even though he was not a doctor. He was, however, very interested in the medical science of his time and actually performed physiological experiments on himself.
Medical attention has recently been drawn to the ill-effects of loneliness, a blight that, it were found that loneliness were good for you in the strict medical sense, should we extol it?
