12 The pharmacist Carlo Erba, who operated in Brera, near Milan. He was one of several figures in the medical domain who, around 1847 in Milan, began to experiment with hashish and marijuana and to devise therapeutic uses for them. The first Italian pharmacist to sell hashish, he accepted a small quantity of coca from Mantegazza. For Italian medicine’s discovery of cannabis, see Giorgio Samorini, L’erba di Carlo Erba: per una storia della canapa indiana in Italia: 1845–1948 (Torino: Nautilus, 1996) [Editor].