This episode is probably the best I've ever seen of "Gunsmoke" -- great story, full of convincing, true acting and authentic-looking sets reminiscent of just how earthy and gritty life was at that time and place. Sexy Gloria Talbott plays a farm girl who takes Matt & Chester back to her place to help her wounded father (Joe De Santis), immobilized with gangrene. Scenes played between father and daughter are touching without being overdone. Matt is forced to apply the "Home Surgery" of the quirky title. James Arness and Dennis Weaver are no less good in this and it is especially impressive how the style and ethic of this series was already firmly established and whole in this first month of airing (1955). No wonder it was hailed as the first 'adult' western on TV compared to "The Lone Ranger", "Hopalong Cassidy" and "The Cisco Kid" already on, and contrasted to the "horse operas" like "Wagon Train" and "Bonanza" that were still to arrive.