Identify the speaker: “Neither party expected for war the ma…

Identify the speaker: “Neither party expected for war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other. . . .The prayers of both could not be answered—that of neither has been answered fully.”  

A patient presents to the emergency department with sudden,…

A patient presents to the emergency department with sudden, severe abdominal pain, bowel urgency, and frequent, forceful bowel movements. The patient has a history of hypertension, heart failure, GERD, colon cancer, and diabetes. The physician suspects vascular intestinal obstruction. What in the patient’s history causes the physician to suspect this?