Gorter, Joannes de, Chirurgia Repurgata...editio altera italica accuratissima, published Padua, Typis Seminarii, Apud Joannem Manfrè, 3rd Itallian Edition, Latin, 1742, 517 pp. (8vo) ,bound in period soft velum, classic text on surgery by Dutch physician Jan Van Gorter. Van Gorter studied at Leyden under Boerhaave, and in 1754 was invited to Russia by the Empress Elizabeth, who made him her first physician