Oxford Textbook of Medicine

The Oxford Textbook of Medicine provides all that any doctor needs to know to practise top-level internal medicine. It gives comprehensive coverage of the epidemiology, aetiology, and mechanism of disease, as well as clear, unambiguous coverage of the diagnosis, practical management and prevention of the entire spectrum of medical disorders. This new CD ROM enables the complete content of the OTM to be searched and accessed in the office, hospital or home. Users can access the 4500 text pages, including Illustrations and References, via the Contents list or by free-text or key-term searches, using familiar, browser-based software; and can add their own notes and bookmarks for future reference. Searching can be done by using words, phrases or wildcards, or via the index. Users can add and edit permanent bookmarks tied to specific paragraphs. There are hyperlinks across the text, including page references. Figures and Plates appear as expandable thumbnails. A history of the articles viewed in the current session appears in a drop-down menu. System requirements: Operating systems: Windows 98/2000/ME/XP/NT 4.0 ; Mac OSX Processor: PC - Intel Pentium III processor or equivalent, minimum 600 MHz; Mac - PowerPC G4, minimum 1 GHz Memory: 128 MB of RAM (256 recommended) CD-ROM drive (50x or faster) SVGA monitor capable of supporting 1024 x 768 resolution 200 MB free hard disk space to run the CD-ROM or 600 MB of free hard disk space to install and run from the hard disk