Finally, as for the criticism that Ogai's 'examination of soldiers' food' prompted beriberi to occur, it is simply an irrational argument imposed by later generations with the knowledge of vitamins, on an earlier generation whose methods and conclusions were suitable and correct for the knowledge that existed at the time.
最後に、鴎外の「陸軍兵食試験」が脚気発生を助長したという批判については、兵食試験の内容（当時として正しい試験で正しい結論）を把握せず、しかもビタミンの存在を知っている後世から、その存在を知らなかった前世への暴論である。