Planet-struck

or SHrew-run, in farriery. This distemper in horses is a kind of catalepsy, or privation of feeling or motion. Not stirring any of their members, they remain in the same form as when first seized. lt is an universal spasm, and to be treated like a convulsive disorder, The ancient farriers, and many of the country people to this day, when they see a horse or bullock have the use of his limbs suddenly taken from him, and not being able to think what should be the cause of such an unexpected change, believe him either to be planet struck or shrew-run, whence the name,