LANSD is the first Brazilian book related to neurology. From the preface we transcribe: "It was therefore my duty ... to draw the attention of my disciples to the most important points of a part of pathology justly considered to be the most difficult, which most lack persevering study, and more has excited the activity of men of science in recent years. " Planned to contain 14 clinical cases divided into three groups, diseases of the brain, spinal cord diseases and neuropathies, it ended up containing only seven cases related to the brain and three special chapters: Aphasia, Diagnosis of Localization of Brain Diseases and Treatment of Brain Diseases, ending on page 201, without any justification. Complementation has not been published.
Master in the clinical method, the author of the first publication on neurology in Brazil wrote a book where cases are portrayed, treatments annotated, necropsy described and differential diagnosis and proto-pathophysiology discussed.