Newspaper essays outlining the value of "the common man" (implicitly coded as white) begin to emerge and are used to explain and defend mistrust in professional or scholarly expertise. This extends into medicine and how different forms of medical care are interpreted. As regulations around different forms of medicine begin to emerge, they are seen as preventing the natural side of healing. A tension emerges between "natural" treatments and "invasive" treatments. "Natural" treatments are seen as the medicine of "the common man."

This anti-intellectual, anti-systems approach to medicine will lead to one state after another disbanding their state-based regulatory bodies. Nearly every state will repeal its penalties for the practice of unlicensed medicine.

This same tension will arise centuries later, when COVID vaccinations will be seen as the "invasive" medicine, framed against "natural" treatments of resting and eating well. This argument for solely "natural" care relies on the idea of the isolated individual and privileges possessed by those with the ability to control their surroundings.