The first domestic dissection proved how accurate books of western medicine were, causing repercussions in Japanese medical circles and giving the chance for Genpaku to doubt the traditionally-supported Chinese theory that a human body consisted of five viscera (liver, lungs, heart, kidney and spleen) and six bowels (small intestine, large intestine, gall bladder, urinary bladder, stomach and san jiao).
国内初の人体解剖は蘭書の正確性を証明し、日本の医学界に波紋を投げかけるとともに、玄白が五臓六腑説への疑問を抱くきっかけとなる。