triage in medical sense (1918)

[Stephen Goranson]

Not sure whether this _triage_ counts as English, since it's in italics.

The Harvard Volunteers in Europe: Personal Records of Experience in Military,
Ambulance, and ... By Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe 1916 (Google Book full view),
p. 131, in a letter dated "Monday, December 27th [1915?]:

[...] The triage has been transferred from Moosch to Wilier; after leaving my
men at the latter place, proceeded to the former. Hill gave me permission to
stay down for Dick's funeral.[...]

http://books.google.com/books?id=0PUHAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA131&dq=triage+intitle:harvard+date:1900-1917

Stephen Goranson
http://www.duke.edu/~goranson

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