Dormant Vitality and cognate states are treated in the articles on Anæsthesia, Coma, Desiccation, Hibernation, Latent Life, Mud-fish, Rotatoria, Suspended Animation, Trance.
Dormant Vitality
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 62
Source scan(s): p. 0071