inert diluents or fillers thereby forming dosage forms such as tablets powders capsules and the like these pharmaceutical compositions can if desired contain additional ingredients such as flavorings binders excipients and the like for example tablets containing various excipients such as sodium citrate are employed together with various disintegrants such as starch alginic acid and certain complex silicates together with binding agents such as polyvinylpyrrolidone sucrose gelatin and acacia additionally lubricating agents such as magnesium stearate sodium lauryl sulfate and talc are often useful for tabletting purposes solid compositions of a similar type may also be employed as fillers in soft and hard filled gelatin capsules preferred materials therefor include lactose or milk sugar and high molecular weight polyethylene glycols the present invention is illustrated by the following examples however it should be understood that the invention is not limited to the specific details of these examples protective effect of various medicinal agents on piroxicam induced gastric lesions in rats adult male 34 specific pathogen free 34 rats weighing 140 160 grams of the cd strain sprague dawley were obtained from charles river breeding laboratories kingston n y the animals were acclimated for approximately one week and tested when they reached a body weight of 200 225 grams the rats were fasted for 16 hours and randomized into groups consisting of 8 to 20 animals which were normalized with.