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Expanding Article/Draft Elizabeth Freke (1641-1714) was born in Hannington, Wiltshire. She collected and compiled many types of recipes, like medical remedies and cooking recipes. She collected her medical remedies from other recipe books and published medical books of her time. With her knowledge from these books, she prepared some of the remedies, and consulted with many physicians and surgeons of the time.

Family History Elizabeth Freke was born in Hannington, Wiltshire into the wealthy household of Ralph Freke and Cicely Culpeper. In 1671, she married her second cousin, Percy Freke of Rathbury Castle county Cork, Ireland, in secret. On June 2, 1675, she gave birth to their only son Ralph Freke. The marriage between Elizabeth and Percy was not very happy and was often the topic of many diary entries. In fact, they did not live in the same household for much of their marriage. Elizabeth spent her time in a Norfolk estate given to her by her father and Percy stayed in Ireland. In 1704, Percy came to live with Elizabeth in Norfolk due to illness and died in her arms two years later.

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 The Freke Papers 

The Freke Papers refers to the two manuscript books that Elizabeth created. In these books she completes many diary entries that give us an insight to how she lived her life. Also within these manuscript books, she wrote notes from published medical books to which she had access, and other recipe books she found. . She even kept a personal inventory list of the ingredients for her medical recipes, along with the remedies themselves. It is known that she had stockpiles of many common 'cure-all' recipes of the time like Aqua Mirabolus, Ague Water, Poppy Water, and Cowslip Wine. The original manuscript books are currently held at the British Library under archives and manuscripts; however, there is a published version edited by Mary Carbery called Mrs. Elizabeth Freke, Her Diary 1671 to 1714. Mary Carbery transcribed from Elizabeth's original manuscripts and rewrote her entries in chronological order, leaving out some of Elizabeth's collected recipes and all of her inventory lists.

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Draft your Article My page I am going to create is about Elizabeth Freke. I have found two sources, one from class by Elaine Leong, and another. I am going to outline here background history, like family relations, what she did and a brief summary of what she did in a beginning section. Then another section will more in depth talk about her work and what she did in her life related to medicine. For example, her work in creating collections of recipes.

Links to Articles:

From Canvas: https://canvas.ou.edu/courses/51610/files/6024846?module_item_id=1150366

From google scholar: Called the Remeberances of Elizabeth Freke. https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Y0ZVWowEMOwC&oi=fnd&pg=PR4&dq=Elizabeth+Freke&ots=AzFV8h8oeX&sig=njYesFWz7W7s13QpCUVaqul0Lg0#v=onepage&q=Elizabeth%20Freke&f=false

Article Evaluation: Article is titled, "Traditional Medicine" []".


 * Everything in the article seems relevant. It gives a history of traditional medicines in many different cultures.
 * Article seemed neutral and had no particular claims or biases.
 * There are a few sections, particularly in the Usage and History section that could use some expanding. The sub-headings have too broad of time periods, and should ideally break them up more.
 * Many of the links for the citations work
 * Sources seem reliable and appropriate. There are used frequently and with almost every fact mentioned. There are a couple things that need verification, and citations, but not may. Overall it is cited well.
 * Some information can be added in the medieval section. It mentions in one sentence that Europeans referred to sickness as too hot, moist, dry, and cold. They could include more information on the four humors with good references.
 * In the talk section it shows lots of consolidating other similar articles into this one, and well as a proposition of merging this one into a history of medicine article as well. The ranks for this article are Start class as well as C Class.
 * This article is a part many Wikiprojects.
 * This article includes more cultures and time periods than we covered in class.

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 * The topic I have selected is Dame Pèronelle.
 * There is not much written about her in the current article so I plan on starting on adding her background. Where she grew up, when she was born, and what all she did in general. As well as talk about her work more in depth and figure out and explain why it says she is successful in the current page.