I cannot say for sure . . . body fluids are saline and corrosive to most metals. Corrosion of medical equipment would allow breeding areas for such nasties as tetanus. Even now tetanus alone causes system wide disease.
It's mostly contracted by cuts from rusty metal.
Other scales of aluminum were hi buck bling before WWI when smelting processes were improved by the war efforts.
Precious metals were often used for razors of folks having their own servants.

JMHO
-Richard