Treatment of gout either primary or secondary to the hyperuricemia associated with blood dyscrasias and their therapy, primary or secondary uric acid nephropathy, with or without accompanying symptoms of gout; recurrent uric acid formation. Allurase is also used in prophylactic treatment to prevent tissue deposition, renal calculi, or uric acid nephropathy in patients with leukemias, lymphomas and malignancies who are receiving cancer chemotherapy with its resultant elevating effect on serum uric acid levels.