Doctor Carossa did however, find a little time for the ""Heilgifte"" of literature. In 1922, the author of Doktor Bürger, which had been so glaringly modelled on Goethe's Werther, published the first volume of his autobiography, "Eine Kindheit." The relationship between Carossa's four part autobiography ("Eine Kindheit, Verwandlung einer Jugend, Das Jahr der schönen Täuschungen," and "Der Tag des jungen Arztes") and Goethe's "Dichtung und Wahrheit" is much more subtle than that between "Werther" and "Doktor Bürger". Doctor Carossa had already by this time published three other works: "Stella Mystica, Gedichte," and a fifteen-page lyrical pamphlet titled "Ostern". The success of "Eine Kindheit" rekindled Doctor Carossa's enthusiasm. Again, as in 1908, a completely literary career hung temptingly before his eyes. His writings were as yet producing only a meager income, but each new word of praise by friends and critics made the switch in emphasis from a career as doctor-poet to one of poet-doctor a little more feasible. In 1923 he published a third edition of "Gedichte," now twice as large as the original 1910 edition. Further heartened by the response to his newer poems, Carossa released later in the same year his third prose work, "Rumänisches Tagebuch". This book was very well received and was remunerative enough that in the mid-twenties Carossa was relieved of financial dependence on his medical practice.