False. Acute appendicitis has been documented as surgically treatable since 1886, and Edison was born in 1847. That means that even if his mom had acute appendicitis and a doctor operated on her, Edison would have been 39 years old that year. The scariest part is that by the time he was 33, his incandescent lamp was already being sold throughout the United States. We can imagine such a scene, then already a big inventor, holding the patent of incandescent lamps in the hands of the rich Thomas Edison in his mother's acute appendicitis, not only do not send to the hospital, even if the doctor sent to the home to give his mother to do the operation also do not give the point of light, Edison resolutely is a big filial son ah ......