When the Council refused to release [Moral] [Note: Consejo 2/25/1738], he tried a different tack. Near Christmas of 1739, the prison doctor, Alonso Garcia, and a member of the Cadiz protomedicato [Note: The protomedicato was a medical society of doctors established to examine and license druggists, physicians, surgeons, and bleeders. It also performed, as in this case, administrative, judicial, and scientific duties connected with medicine and medical practice.], Lopez de Peralta, certified that Moral suffered piles, colic, and a periodic impediment of the urinary tract. These ailments, asserted the two physicians, would continue as long as Moral remained in his cell at Santa Catalina. In a strong recommendation (prompted perhaps by a bribe from Moral), they asked that the former governor be removed to a more salubrious environment [Note: Certificacion de Don Alonso Garcia, Medico, y Don Roque Lopez de Peralta, Cirjuano por el protomedico 12/20/1739]. Again the Council refused to free Moral, but in 1740... (Tepaske GSF)