Rinkoku kara Kita Yome ga Kawaisugite Doushiyou - Vol. 2 Ch. 11

[Stratomizer]

I think they are:
Option 1: both were reincarnated, married previously in Japan. Husband lost his memories while she kept hers.

Option 2: she's the only reincarnated plus she time looped or saw the future.

both scenario are good, but the 1st one for me is better, because it's not that generic isekai or time looped

 

[Wizardrone]

thanks for chapter

so she is defenitly an isekaied or perhaps a returnee? since hardly someone would just tell vitamin b1 with that level of medieval technology

 

[win746]

Reminds me of Doctor Elise, but from the ML's perspective this time. Could might as well be the same premise too, where she was originally from this wolrd, isekai to earth and learned medicine, and isekai back

 

[Mah_Buddy_Keith]

My Little House M.D. Can't Be This Cute!

The patient needs mouse bites to live.

 

[Madologist]

Well, that’s probably because the author skimmed on the historical parallels between how beriberi came to be a thing in Meiji era Japan and how it was eventually eradicated.

See, back in the days rice was a staple food, but poor people had brown rice which had its bran coating intact. Polished white rice was considered a luxurious food meant for the rich back in the days, but polishing the bran off the rice also meant that it can be stored longer, so the military will pay to have the rice polished so it can be stored in the warehouses. Similarly, in major Japanese cities the warehouses of local merchants tend to be stocked with polished white rice since it’s much more shelf-stable, and they can pass the price increases onto their customers.

The ability to store polished rice for long periods of time meant that the Japanese military gave their soldiers and sailors as much white rice as they wanted, but charged for other (more perishable and expensive) foods. For poorer sailors during voyages, many of them ended up eating nothing but white rice and salt (so they can send money from their paychecks home). At least army soldiers can theoretically forage for extra ingredients..but not always. It was observed that during longer campaigns or voyages, poorer soldiers and sailors who had nothing but polished white rice and salt developed beriberi, while their richer officers didn’t, despite them being in close proximity with each other. The only difference is that the officers also ate other things paid out of pocket sold from the mess halls and galleys. When those poorer soldiers and sailors returned back to their families out in the countryside, their condition seemingly improved or went away. Why was that? Their families at home can’t afford polished white rice so they had to have barley or locally grown unpolished rice (which is brown rice). Where’s the B1 stored in rice? Within the bran coating that was polished off.

How did the Japanese Navy fought off Beriberi? They started mixing barley onto their white rice (which was resisted by some sailors due to its “poor folk kibble” image), but the army didn’t follow suit and suffered from it for 15 more years. Why didn’t they? Imperial navy officers were trained in the UK and were taught epidemiology while the Imperial army officers were trained in Prussia and were taught germ theory. In epidemiology all factors were considered as root to afflictions while germ theory concentrates on a malignant source of illness. The idea that you can become sick due to some kind of “imbalance” was a concept in ancient Chinese medicine (which amongst much Chinese know-how was adopted by Japan and held for centuries during the Shogunate era). This was seen as passé for Meiji Japan, which was trying to absorb western ideas and catch up. Of course, while the core tenets of traditional Chinese medication is a bit wacky, the benefit of a nutritionally balanced diet does deliver results here.
The Japanese emperor eventually ordered the army to add barley to their rice rations as well, mostly out of pragmatism.

In the manga, the victims tend to be single men on exile who were on the fish-and-polished rice diet and little else. This is similar to the diets of day laborers in large Japanese cities like Osaka and Tokyo. For the urban lower and middle class, there was a folk remedy…which was to mix beans into the white rice, which also boosted its nutritional profile. It was however held as something shameful meant for the poor and ignorant.

Yeah, I also forgot about that entire “mixing barley or beans into the white rice” angle, which was one of the historical cures for beriberi in the military/prison system. Note that this was not a popular practice since it increased the cooking time for rice, it makes the rice less appealing, and you’ll now need to add one more item into your supply chains.

The army/navy also stopped charging for supplementary food in the mess halls/galleys - you get a mandatory fixed size portion of food on a daily basis to go with the rice. One of the items supposedly introduced? Curry.

Army marches on its stomach
Charge the army for its food

 

[WANgue]

Army marches on its stomach
Charge the army for its food

Well, it’s not that the army/navy didn’t offer the food up to the rank and file, it’s that the rationing system up until 1889 gave the rice generously, while the main/side dishes were offered in the form of a cash allowance - the poorer soldiers/sailors took the cash allowance and sent it home to needy family members, or did something dumb like gamble it away. After 1889 their Navy decided to do away with the cash allowance system…which they judged to be rife with abuse anyways, and just made everyone eat the damned stews and whatnot. Supposedly one of the benefits of having Japanese navy curry every Friday for lunch is that since it’s made with flour in the gravy along with root vegetables and preserved beef, there’s enough B1 to stave off beriberi when served on top of rice…

 

[Madologist]

Well, it’s not that the army/navy didn’t offer the food up to the rank and file, it’s that the rationing system up until 1889 gave the rice generously, while the main/side dishes were offered in the form of a cash allowance - the poorer soldiers/sailors took the cash allowance and sent it home to needy family members, or did something dumb like gamble it away. After 1889 their Navy decided to do away with the cash allowance system…which they judged to be rife with abuse anyways, and just made everyone eat the damned stews and whatnot. Supposedly one of the benefits of having Japanese navy curry every Friday for lunch is that since it’s made with flour in the gravy along with root vegetables and preserved beef, there’s enough B1 to stave off beriberi when served on top of rice…

Well, still better than "we march faster if we procure some of the supplies locally".

 

[SoyYoJoder]

But I don't think this makes any sense. If the disease is a vitamin deficiency, and these people have been there for a while and have been eating rice and dried fish the whole time, shouldn't this "epidemic" be a longstanding problem and not something that's just happened recently?

My understanding is that they had a more varied diet before coming to exile, so the problems only happened when they left their country

 

[MaCl0wSt]

Thanks for the chapter!

 

[Anothis]

But I don't think this makes any sense. If the disease is a vitamin deficiency, and these people have been there for a while and have been eating rice and dried fish the whole time, shouldn't this "epidemic" be a longstanding problem and not something that's just happened recently?

They seem to have been recently moved to the region. Like a year or two ago.

 

[Grikath]

Would have been something if the story focussed on the whole ditched bride otome thing, but Isekai Medical Columbo written with hammed fists?
Nope... Into the Dropped pile it goes. Not even waiting for Axe-kun with this one.

 

[orangerain7734]

I wanna say she's reincarnated but also probably met MC when they were younger. Or maybe like that one otome isekai where she lived a life in this world reincarnated into the modern day then regressed back to their first life.

Like Doctor Elise?

 

[Jstar338]

But I don't think this makes any sense. If the disease is a vitamin deficiency, and these people have been there for a while and have been eating rice and dried fish the whole time, shouldn't this "epidemic" be a longstanding problem and not something that's just happened recently?

They all ate bad fish, that was the problem. They got sick from the bad fish and then stuck to eating rice, and that was the tipping point for the malnutrition

 

[Artimid]

My current theory.. she's not just isekai'd but a 'returnee'. I feel like she met him later in life before her isekai and then returned to a much earlier time. Since there has, otherwise, been zero hints that they met as kids. Her being reincarnated is without question, though. I'm betting executed for her birthmark or some nonsense and he stood up for her trying to stop it, or died trying to protect her or something like that.

 

[stephen01king]

Would have been something if the story focussed on the whole ditched bride otome thing, but Isekai Medical Columbo written with hammed fists?
Nope... Into the Dropped pile it goes. Not even waiting for Axe-kun with this one.

I can tell your taste is a bit basic, but that's okay. Nobody can say your taste is wrong.

For me, though, I really like that they're not going down the route of generic otome story, since we have plenty of that already. Even as an isekai it's doing things uniquely, so that's another plus.

 

[Elfteiroh]

I vastly approve of showing men crying. Q_Q
I really love how the MC connected with this loving husband. Q_Q

 

[shadebane]

I think they are:
Option 1: both were reincarnated, married previously in Japan. Husband lost his memories while she kept hers.

Option 2: she's the only reincarnated plus she time looped or saw the future.

Either way, this shit is good!