However, Bernardino Montaña was one of those supporters who seems not to have been aware of the transformation that was about to take place and who unequivocally reveals the current reading of his treatise, precisely by vacillating between defending the ancient knowledge and revealing undeniable glimpses of the new knowledge; more concerned with didactic than scientific work, he rushes to cram into the dream and its subsequent interpretation the entire substance of ancient medicine in a conceptual framework – which may be only terminological – that is only superficially modern, but is already essentially different: he is trying to reconcile the notion of the body and of Galenist medicine – the only form of medicine possible in the West until that point – with mechanistic structures of thought.
Pues bien, Bernardino Montaña es uno de esos protagonistas que no parece percatarse de la mutación que se avecinaba y que inequívocamente revela la lectura actual de su tratado, precisamente, por la vacilación que muestra entre la defensa de la materia vieja y los innegables atisbos de la materia nueva; preocupado más por la labor didáctica que por la científica, se apresura a encajar, a través del sueño que relata y de la interpretación subsiguiente, toda la sustancia de la vieja medicina en un armazón conceptual – tal vez, únicamente, terminológico – sólo superficialmente moderno, pero ya esencialmente distinto: se aplica a armonizar la noción del cuerpo y de la medicina galénica – la única medicina posible en occidente hasta ese momento – en las estructuras del pensamiento mecanicista.