Franklin MER-3024 User Manual
MER-3024
Medical Book System
T
HE
MERCK
MANUAL
™
User’s Guide
License Agreement
READ THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT BEFORE USING THE MEDICAL BOOK
SYSTEM.
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BOOK SYSTEM means the software product, hardware, and documentation found in
this package and FRANKLIN means Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc.
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Contents
Foreword ...................................... 3
Key Guide..................................... 4
Installing Book Cards .................. 5
Selecting a Book .......................... 5
Changing the Settings ................. 6
Viewing a Demonstration ............ 6
Using the Outline ......................... 7
Using the Index ............................8
Searching for Words....................9
Highlighting Search Words ....... 11
Expanding Y our Searches......... 11
Reading Special Markers........... 12
Using Notes................................ 13
Looking Up Words
in Other Books ........................... 14
Resetting the Medical Book
System........................................ 15
Book Card Care.......................... 15
Specifications and Patents ....... 16
Limited Warranty (U.S. only) ..... 17
FCC Notice ................................. 18
Index ........................................... 19
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About Book Card Compatibility
IMPORT ANT This book card can be
used only with the Medical Book Sys-
™
platform and will not function in any
tem
other Franklin BOOKMAN
®
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.
➤
For More Information
To learn more about the Medical Book
System or other products from Franklin Electronic Publishers, call 800-6655450 or visit the Franklin Web site at
www.franklin.com.
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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.
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platform.
Foreword
With this edition, The Merck Manual celebrates its 100th birthday. When the editors of the 1st
Edition produced their 192-page compendium, they could not have realized the extent to which
medical knowledge would explode over the next century. The Mer ck Manual now fills 2,655
pages and covers countless diseases that were not known 100 years ago.
Although the knowledge of medicine has grown, the goal of The Mer ck Manual has not
changed -- T o provide useful clinical information to practicing physicians, medical students, interns, residents, nurses, pharmacists, and other health care professionals in a concise, complete,
and accurate manner. The Mer ck Manual continues to cover all the subjects expected in a textbook of internal medicine as well as detailed information on pediatrics, psychiatry, obstetrics, gynecology, dermatology, pharmacology, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, and a number of special
subjects. The Merck Manual quickly provides information that helps practitioners achieve optimal care. The more specialized the practice of medicine becomes, the more important such information becomes. Specialists as well as generalists must at some time quickly access information
about other specialties.
The 17th edition of The Merck Manual is the culmination of an arduous but rewarding 7-year
enterprise. Every topic has been updated, and many have been completely rewritten. T opics new
to this edition include hand disorders, prion diseases, death and dying, probabilities in clinical
medicine, multiple chemical sensitivity, chronic fatigue syndrome, rehabilitation, smoking cessation, and drug therapy in the elderly, among others.
Because of the extensive subject matter covered and a successful tradition developed through
trials of successes and failures, The Merck Manual has some unique characteristics. Subject headings within each section, internal headings within a subject discussion, and boldfaced terms
in the text form an outline intended to help with use of the text.
We hope this edition of The Merck Manual will serve as an aid to you, our readers, compatible
with your needs and worthy of frequent use. Suggestions for improvements will be warmly welcomed and carefully considered.
Mark H. Beers, M.D., and Robert Berkow, M.D., Editors
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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 high-
?
lighted item. With
CAP
asterisk (✽) to stand for letters in a
word.
, types an
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 special markers (e.g.,
footnotes, cross-references,
tables, etc.).
+Q-P Types numbers.
✩
DN
or
or
+
✩
UP
CAP
At text, displays the next or
previous paragraph, table row,
or search match.
+
Goes to the top or bottom of
a menu or list. At text, goes to
the next or previous Outline title.
* Hold the first key while pressing the second.
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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. Turn 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.
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Removing Book Cards
CAUTION When you remove a book
card from a platform, information entered in that book card may be erased.
If you have installed two book cards in
the platform, you can select which book
you want to read.
1. Turn the platform on.
2. Press
CARD
.
3. Use or to highlight the book
you want to use.
4. Press
➤
ENTER
to select it.
Resuming Where You Left Off
You can turn off the platform at any
screen. When you turn it on again, the
last screen that you viewed appears.
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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 appears
CLEAR
when you press
1. Press
MENU
2. Highlight
fault State, Set Shutoff
Contrast
3. Press
4. Use
ENTER
or to change the setting.
Or press
BACK
.
.
Set Type Size, Set De-
, or
Set
on the Setup menu.
.
to leave the setting
unchanged.
5. Press
ENTER
to select it.
Before you start using this book, you may
want to see a brief demonstration.
MENU
Press
and then use the arrow keys to
highlight V iew Demo on the Setup menu.
ENTER
Press
onstration, press
to select it. T o stop the dem-
CLEAR
.
➤ Help is Always at Hand
You can view a help message at virtually any screen by pressing
BACK
exit help, press
.
To 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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HELP
. T o
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