He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and at Mason's and Queen's Colleges, the predecessors of Birmingham University and its Faculty of Medicine. He graduated B.Sc. London, in 1891 and after qualifying in 1896 held resident posts in several London hospitals. He sailed to Australia and back in 1897-98, as medical officer in a sailing ship, an experience that was unusual even in those days and one that made a deep and lasting impression on him. He was fond of recounting how he gained a reputation-not for treating a sailor seriously injured in a storm, with no assistance and very inadequate equipment, while almost prostrate with sea sickness; but for the anxious care with which he looked after the cook to whom he had inadvertently given an overdose of calomel. After his return to England, he became R.M.O. at the City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest for eighteen months until, in 1900, he finally returned to Birmingham, first as Resident Pathologist at the General Hospital. He obtained the M.R.C.P. in 1902 and the M.B., B.Ch. of the recently founded Birmingham University in the same year. He became Physician to OutPatients of the Queen's Hospital, Birmingham, in 1902 and Physician in 1909, and was appointed to the Children's Hospital in 1904. During the 1914-18 war, he was a captain in the R.A.M.C. and served in France with the 56th General Hospital, after which he returned to his hospital and consulting practice. He was elected F.R.C.P. in 1921. His medical interests were wide, and his early publications were concerned with a wide variety of subjects, and even to the end he regarded himself as a general physician with a special interest in heart disease. He was fortunate in spending his professional life during a period when, the foundations of morbid anatomy having been laid, a tremendous burst of new techniques, new ideas, and new discoveries began to transform the art of medicine into a science, a process of which Emanuel approved, though with some reservations. He witnessed the birth of radiology and serology, and introduced into Birmingham the use of the Widal reaction and of dyes for the differential staining of blood cells. Later he took up with enormous zest the new techniques introduced by Mackenzie and Lewis, and was for many years the only physician in the Midlands who understood the mysteries