The article deals with the analysis of the translated for the first time from Latin to Russia and introduced into scientific use 'Dissertatio medico chirurgica inauguralis de Aneurysmate' (St. Petersburg, 1816) written by Associate Professor of the Imperial Medical and Surgical Academy, then holder of the highest orders of the Russian Empire, Actual Privy Councillor V.V. Pelikan (1790-1873). Part 3 of the article presents selected fragments from the dissertation with brief author's comments on the description of methods of palliative (dressing) and radical (compression, ligature) treatment of aneurysm.