Old fiction novel where a man could see through the skin

Fiction. Plot: Young man gains the ability to see through the skin (see capillaries, cells and more) (or even see through other objects), and because of this, becomes a sociophobe and breaks up with a girlfriend. As I remember he could see instead of normal vision, that was 24/7. Genre: romance(?) Physically describe the book: I have only read the synopsis of the book, not the book itself, and now I want to find the book itself.

I assume the book was written before 1900, maybe in 1600-1899, the language is either English or European.

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Was it
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar by Roald Dahl
I loved that story.

Synopsis on wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonderful_Story_of_Henry_Sugar_and_Six_More#Th...

I was able to re-read it online last year, I think through the library or open library.

>4 BookSmith23:
Thanks, but I remember that in the story I'm looking for, it was indicated that a person with the x-ray ability was disappointed in things when he began to see their insides, so I assume that the writer was a decadent and this is not in modernism period (XX), but rather before 1900.

It's the other way around, in that the protagonist becomes see-through, but H.G. Wells's The Invisible Man sounds like the right time period. Worth considering?

>6 humouress:
I thought that it could be Ernst Hoffmann's style, but looking through his tales I did not find anything similar.

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There's a story by Paul Jennings like this called 'Clear as Mud' (in the volume Undone) but it's much too late (1993).

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This reminded me of an afternoon movie I saw on TV 45 years ago. I found the title of that was The Man With the X-Ray Eyes. But it does not appear to be based on a book.