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It's pretty cool that silver was understood as being resistant to bad stuff even before they knew what that bad stuff was. Kinda like how they knew asbestos mining was bad millenia ago. There's comments from ancient times like "Don't buy second hand slaves from the asbestos mines, they cough a bunch and die on you." Then thousands of years later we discover mesothelioma.
Romans also knew that lead was bad for you, didn't stop them from using that shit (although their exposure was probably a lot less than when it was at its peak due to industrialization)