1. Install the book card in a slot in
the back of the Medical Book
System platform.
2. Turn the platform on.
CARD
3. If needed, press
use the
or to highlight its
and then
icon.
ENTER
4. Press
to select it.
T o Search for W ords
1. Press
2. Type one or more words.
3. Press
4. Hold ✩ and press DN to see
5. Press
6. To expand a search, press
SEARCH
.
ENTER
.
the locations of matches.
ENTER
MENU
to see a match or
to see the matches listed
on the menus.
MORE
.
T o Use the Menus
1.
2. Highlight an entry by typing its
3. Press
4. Select subitems, if needed, by
5. Use
MENU
Press
and highlight the
Diseases menu or the Drugs menu.
name or pressing
ENTER
or .
.
highlighting them and pressing
ENTER
.
, DN, or
SPACE
to scroll.
T o Use Notes
1. When the text of the book is on
screen, press
2. Press
3. Press
ENTER
ENTER
note title and then press
4. To find a note in the text, press
LIST
, highlight a note title, and
then press
LIST
.
to select
Add Note
or type your own
ENTER
ENTER
.
19
.
.
License Agreement
READ THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT BEFORE USING THE MEDICAL BOOK
SYSTEM.
YOUR USE OF THE MEDICAL BOOK SYSTEM DEEMS THAT YOU ACCEPT
THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THESE
TERMS, YOU MAY RETURN THIS PACKAGE WITH PURCHASE RECEIPT TO
THE DEALER FROM WHICH YOU PURCHASED THE MEDICAL BOOK SYSTEM AND YOUR PURCHASE PRICE WILL BE REFUNDED. The MEDICAL
BOOK SYSTEM means the software product, hardware, and documentation found in
this package and FRANKLIN means Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc.
LIMITED USE LICENSE
All rights in the MEDICAL BOOK SYSTEM remain the property of FRANKLIN.
Through your purchase, FRANKLIN grants you a personal and nonexclusive license to
use the MEDICAL BOOK SYSTEM. You may not make any copies of the MEDICAL
BOOK SYSTEM or of the preprogrammed data stored therein, whether in electronic or
print format. Such copying would be in violation of applicable copyright laws. Further,
you may not modify, adapt, disassemble, decompile, translate, create derivative works
of, or in any way reverse engineer the MEDICAL BOOK SYSTEM. You may not export or re-export, directly or indirectly , the MEDICAL BOOK SYSTEM without compliance with appropriate governmental regulations. The MEDICAL BOOK SYSTEM
contains Franklin’s confidential and propriety information which you agree to take adequate steps to protect from unauthorized disclosure or use. This license is effective until terminated. This license terminates immediately without notice from FRANKLIN if
you fail to comply with any provision of this license.
1
Contents
Introduction
Installing Book Cards................ 4
Selecting a Book........................ 4
Changing the Settings .............. 5
Viewing a Demonstration.......... 5
Using the Diseases Menu ......... 6
Finding Drug References.......... 7
Searching for Words ................. 8
Highlighting Search Words .... 10
Expanding Your Searches ...... 10
Reading Special Markers .........11
Using Notes .............................. 12
Looking Up Words
in Other Books ......................... 13
Resetting the Medical
Book System ............................ 14
Book Card Care........................ 14
Specifications and Patents ...... 15
Limited Warranty (U.S. only) .... 16
➤
For More Information
To learn more about the Medical Book
System™ or other products from
Franklin Electronic Publishers, call
800-665-5450 or visit the Franklin
W eb site at www.franklin.com.
With the Drugs of Choice fr om The
Medical Letter
®
book card, you can find
information about drug treatments for 13
common diseases and ailments, including
asthma, hypertension, and psychiatric
disorders. You can also place notes to go
directly to the text you use most often.
To get started, simply install the book card
into the Medical Book System platform.
➤
About Book Card Compatibility
IMPORT ANT! This book card can be
used only with the Medical Book System
platform and will not function in any
other Franklin BOOKMAN
®
platform.
The Medical Book System platform can
use Franklin BOOKMAN book cards as
well as Medical Book System book cards.
However, Franklin BOOKMAN platforms cannot use Medical Book System
book cards.
2
Key Guide
Color Keys
MORE
(red) Expands a word search.
SPEC
(green) Displays the outline location of the current text.
SEARCH
(
yellow
) Displays the word search screen.
LIST
(blue) Lets you add, find, or remove
a note.
Function Keys
BACK
Erases typed letters, or backs up to
the previous screen.
CAP
Shifts keys to type capitals or punctuation.
CARD
Exits the currently selected book.
CLEAR
Clears an entry or search and goes
to the default state.
ENTER
Enters a word, selects a menu item,
or starts the highlight in text.
HELP
Displays help messages.
MENU
Displays the main menus.
ON/OFF
Turns the platform on or off.
SPACE
At entry screens, types a space. At
menus and text, pages down.
✻
At menus, displays the title of a
?
highlighted item. With
an asterisk (✽) to stand for letters in
a word.
CAP
, types
Direction Keys
DN
UP
Pages up or down.
Moves the cursor, text, or highlight.
Key Combinations*
BACK
+
✩
Goes to the top level of
a menu from a lower level.
CARD
+
✩
Transfers a highlighted word
between installed book cards.
ENTER
+
✩
At a highlighted menu item,
displays the related text. At
text, highlights a footnote,
bibliographic reference, crossreference, or note.
+Q-PTypes numbers.
✩
DN
oror
✩
+
UP
CAP
At text, displays the next or previous section or subsection.
+
Goes to the top or bottom of
a menu or list. At text, goes to
the next or previous Outline title.
➤
Understanding the Keys
The functions of the keys may vary according to which book card is installed
and selected in the platform. T o learn
how to use a particular book card, read
its user’s guide.
* Hold the first key while pressing the second.
3
Installing Book Cards
Selecting a Book
CAUTION Never install or remove a
book card when the platform is turned on.
If you do, information entered in any installed book cards may be erased.
1. T urn the platform off.
2. Turn the platform over.
3. Align the book card tabs with the
notches in a card slot.
4. Press the book card until it
snaps into the slot.
➤
Removing Book Cards
CAUTION When you remove a book
card from a platform, information entered in that book card will be erased.
If you have installed two book cards in
the platform, you can select which book
you want to read.
1. T urn the platform on.
CARD
2. Press
.
3. Use or to highlight the book
you want to use.
4. Press
➤
Resuming Where You Left Off
ENTER
to select it.
You can turn off the platform at any
screen. When you turn it on again, the
last screen that you viewed appears.
4
Changing the Settings
Viewing a Demonstration
Using the Setup menu, you can adjust the
type size, default state, shutoff time, and
screen contrast of this book.
The type size sets how large the characters appear on screen. The shutoff time
sets how long your Medical Book System
stays on if you forget to turn it off.
The default state sets the screen that ap-
CLEAR
pears when you press
1. Press
2. Highlight
MENU
.
Set Type Size, Set Default State, Set Shutoff
Contrast
3. Press
4. Use
Or press
on the Setup menu.
ENTER
.
or to change the setting.
BACK
to leave the setting un-
.
, or
Set
changed.
5. Press
ENTER
to select it.
Before you start using this book, you may
want to see a brief demonstration of what it
can do.
MENU
Press
and then use the arrow keys to
highlight V iew Demo on the Setup menu.
ENTER
Press
onstration, press
to select it. To stop the dem-
CLEAR
.
➤ Help is Always at Hand
You can view a help message at virtually any screen by pressing
exit help, press
BACK
HELP
.
T o read a tutorial about this book, select Tutorial from the Setup menu.
➤
Follow the Arrows
The flashing arrows at the right of the
screen show which arrow keys you can
press to move through menus or view
more text.
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